Times New Roman is a serif typeface; it has little bobs, caps, and curls at the edges of letters that give the typeface its distinctive look. Calibri is a sans serif typeface; it has much cleaner ...

Almost two decades ago!), Microsoft replaced Times New Roman as its default font, opting for the sans-serif Calibri (which has since been usurped by a suite of fonts called Aptos). Last year, the U.S.

Serif fonts, such as Times New Roman, Georgia and Garamond, are named as such because they feature these small but noticeable embellishments. In contrast sans-serif fonts, such as Arial, Helvetica ...

Times New Roman, top, and Calibri, bottom. But that was a long time ago, and Calibri is now on its way out for various reasons, perhaps for its distastefully attenuated terminators.

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 ...

The department has used Times New Roman since 2004, when it switched from another serif font, Courier New. Serif fonts “have an extra flourish that makes it look pretty for many people, but can ...

The State Department will switch its official font from Times New Roman to Calibri next month in an effort to increase accessibility, a department spokesperson said. Secretary of State Antony ...

The font was exchanged for Times New Roman in 2004, but at that time had received criticism because it was changed from the Courier New 12 font, otherwise known as the typewriter font.

Still, I wouldn’t blame State Department employees if they wanted to pour one out for Times New Roman. It’s a font that’s been around the block, being invented in the 1930s for British ...

The State Department has used Times New Roman for its official communications since 2004. Now it's switching to the sans-serif Calibri in an effort to improve accessibility.