Marco Rubio associe l’adoption de Calibri en 2023 aux politiques de diversité, d’équité, d’inclusion et d’accessibilité (DEIA) de l’administration Biden, désormais démantelées. Je lui rappelle quand même, c’est que ce qui préside à la conception des caractères c’est qu’ils puissent être lus par le plus grand nombre.

With every update, the focus shifted further away from writing and toward formatting. Using Word, you come to think that writing means choosing fonts. From the beginning, Word uses a proportional, finished font. Instead of thinking about what to say, users were trained to concentrate on how it looks.

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Likely, this is how developers saw writing at the time. “Putting words in fancy fonts and make them bold and stuff.” As a professional writer, you probably don’t care much about bold, italics, and underline, while you write. You care about sentence, paragraph, chapter, and outline. Not in a graphic way, but from a grammatical, semantic, and rhetoric perspective.

Markdown forever !