Calibri | Trump target fonts in latest DEI attack - prompting accessibility concerns

The font Calibri has fallen foul of the Trump administration, joining Harvard, the Smithsonian and corporate America on the list of targets in its war against diversity, equity and inclusion.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the use of the font in official department paperwork a "wasteful" example of DEI, continuing the administration's attempts to quell inclusion efforts anywhere it has influence. Rubio on Tuesday reversed the State Department's official use of Calibri, which had been implemented through a 2023 Biden-era directive.

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Starting Wednesday, the department is using Times New Roman 14-point font for official papers, a State Department spokesperson told Axios. The Department also said that Times New Roman is more professional, and that its implementation aligns with Trump's "One Voice for America's Foreign Relations" directive. Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken ordered the change to Calibri based on a recommendation of his department's diversity and inclusion office.

"Although switching to Calibri was not among the department's most illegal, immoral, radical, or wasteful instances of DEI it was nonetheless cosmetic," Rubio said in a cable sent to department employees, the AP reported. "Switching to Calibri achieved nothing except the degradation of the department's correspondence."