Comment Re:Ah yes (Score 1) 89
My favorite is Gill Sans which, like Calibri, is sans but is extremely readable on both screen and print. It in turn is based on Johnston, the London Underground font, which had to be readable given it was being used for signage and notices throughout the LU system. British Rail also had a variant of Helvetica intended for the same purpose and again ability-to-read-quickly was considered critical.
The thing is the whole "Serif is easier to read" is more of a spectrum than a hard rule. There are very readable sans fonts, and God-knows some pretty awful seriffed fonts.
In addition to Rubio's motives (you want to make it harder for people with poor vision to read? What a fucking asshole), Rubio is fucking up for one other reason: In the mid-1980s Times Roman and Helvetica were pretty much the only fonts going that weren't computer fonts, thanks to the influence of the Apple Macintosh and Adobe Postscript. Variants came with most operating systems, and these were translated to Times or Helvetica. There were a tiny number of other fonts that also came with PCs/Macs but they were rarely useful for anything but logos and titles. Only a handful of people actually bought other fonts and used them.
The result is that nothing says "Tired, no effort" than Times Roman. Think of the reaction you probably have when you see a 404 message in Times Roman. Which is an absolute tragedy because it's a classic font.
So, that's what Rubio wants, America to appear lazy and tech illiterate, all to own the libs^H^H^H^Hsight impaired. What the fuck? I once voted for that asshole. I was impressed by his work trying to make a legal path to residency for Dreamers. I genuinely thought he wasn't a typical conservative, he was the type of conservative I wanted to encourage to thrive in that party. What a dumbass I was.