Serif fonts, such as Times New Roman, Georgia and Garamond, are named as such because they feature these small but noticeable ...

“As a sans-serif 21st-century font, Calibri certainly gives the State Department a more contemporary voice than the antique Times New Roman,” Horne says. Nix, meanwhile, believes the switch ...

when it also replaced Times New Roman with the then-new Calibri as the default font for documents. The reasoning was largely the same: sans serif was more readable and people weren’t printing as ...

There’s more to font choices than what looks nice, and some experts said it would make for easier reading. By Daniel Victor Wading into a debate that has divided designers and accessibility ...

Calibri replaced Times New Roman as the suite's default font in ... The main flavor of Aptos is a sans-serif font—described by Matteson as "Helvetica" but with "a bit of a human touch" that ...

The U.S. State Department is going sans serif: It has directed staff at home and overseas to phase out the Times New Roman font and adopt Calibri in official communications and memos, in a bid to ...

Additionally, sans-serif fonts are less likely to create problems ... In 2007, it replaced Times New Roman as the default typeface for Microsoft Word in recognition that, going forward, most ...

headlined “The Times (New Roman) are a-Changin,” ala Bob Dylan, saying they will be changing the font for high-level internal documents to the larger sans-serif font, Calibri, from Times New ...

“The Times (New Roman) are a-Changin,” the subject line ... referred to as “wings” or “feet.” Calibri, as a sans serif font, does not have any of those additional lines.

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