A slap in the typeface: Why Rubio’s dumping of Calibri is born out of prejudice

Mo Jogie is Design and Strategy Director at Institute of Media, Strategy and Design, as well as a member of the Design Education Forum of SA. He joins Lester Kiewit to discuss why US State Secretary Marco Rubio’s decision to dump the Calibri typeface for all official communications, has prejudice at its core. In 2023, the US state department flipped from using Times New Roman to Calibri, because Calibri is easier to read for the visually impaired.


 


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