Secretary of State Marco Rubio has now taken his fight against federal diversity initiatives to an unexpectedly symbolic battleground: typefaces.

On Tuesday, he issued an order stopping the State Department’s official use of the Calibri font—reversing a Biden-era effort to improve accessibility, which Rubio blasted as “wasteful.”

An internal cable instructed U.S. diplomats to return to Times New Roman in all official communications, framing the move as a bid to “restore decorum and professionalism to the Department’s written work products and abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program” to better align with President Donald Trump’s “One Voice for America’s Foreign Relations” directive.

For Rubio, the fight was never just about readability. His order explicitly blamed “radical” diversity,

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