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US Govt Makes Times New Roman 14 Official Font

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the curse-the-wretched-serif dept.

pollux03 writes "According to ABC news, 'In an internal memorandum distributed on Wednesday, the department declared "Courier New 12" - the font and size decreed for US diplomatic documents for years - to be obsolete and unacceptable after February 1. "In response to many requests and with a view to making our written work easier to read, we are moving to a new standard font: 'Times New Roman 14'," said the memorandum. ' The report goes on to cite a few exceptions to the rule including official telegraphs."

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  1. What else is news? by shlomo · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm not sure I get why this is posted on slashdot?
    is switching fonts some type fo huge technilogical leap for the government?

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  2. Bad by Samuel+Duncan · · Score: 0, Troll

    I heard that the Bush goverment push 14pt size after the Paper & Wood pulp industry donated 10 bn to his electoral fund.

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  3. No More Government ASCII ART!! by A55M0NKEY · · Score: 0, Troll
    They are switching from Courier to Times New Roman?!!! This sucks!

    How are they going to construct ASCII art without a fixed width font? Plus wouldn't you expect a spy vs spy courier type person to carry secret documents written in Courier type? Geez! And 14 pt font??? That's frikken huge!! What ever happened to typewriter size font?

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  4. Most readable font..according to Google by erick99 · · Score: 0, Troll
    I checked "most readable font" on Google and it does seem that the Times New Roman font is generally at the top of the list. Most of the articles say that first and foremost a highly readable font is sans serif. Then, among the sans serif fonts, Times New Roman generally rates highest.

    Then I did a google search on "way too much free time" and my name came up 133,000 times....

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  5. Once againe, SCO set the standard... by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 0, Troll

    Encrypted "Super Secret" communications will be done with Wingdings 16Isn't this the crypto that SCO used in their code comparisons?

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  6. Re:Yeah, nice use of taxdollars. by Tree131 · · Score: 0, Troll

    "If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for everyone else."

    Actually, he probably spoke Hebrew, since after all, the bastard lived and was crucified in Israel.

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    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  8. Re:Encrypted by binarytoaster · · Score: 0, Troll

    At one point in old versions of Windows, you could type "NYC Q77" (New York City, and the flight number) and it would come up with a skull, a Star of David, some other evil symbol that I don't recall, a plane and two tower-like objects... :P