WASHINGTON — There’s a new font line in the State Department.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed all diplomats to revert to using the Times New Roman typeface in official communications and ripped into his predecessor for shifting to Calibri.

Two years ago, Rubio’s predecessor, Antony Blinken , switched to Calibri, a softer, simpler-shaped, and wider font than Times New Roman, in part to assist individuals with certain visual disabilities such as low vision and dyslexia.

“Switching to Calibri achieved nothing except the degradation of the department’s official correspondence,” Rubio wrote in an “action request,” obtained by Reuters and the New York Times .

Times New Roman has long been a classic letterhead in books, featuring narrower and more formally shaped letters relati

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