> Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the Biden-era move to the sans serif typeface “wasteful,” casting the return to Times New Roman as part of a push to stamp out diversity efforts.

https://archive.ph/2025.12.10-001235/https://www.nytimes.com...

To actually reduce waste, they could have switched to a narrower typeface, such as Roboto Condensed. At least it would save some paper occasionally.

Roboto Condensed is excellent. It saves space so more words can be read with each eye movement (saccades) and is very clear.

see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_in_reading

Is the book Beaudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation

There were discussions of it on HN a few years ago:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Simulacra+and+Simulation

No it's not that one, but thanks for the reference and digging for something. I'll try to find it.

Yes I was curious, I thought you were reference that book aswell.

Discussion yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46182986

Some previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46153852