Colm O'Regan: A font of knowledge when it comes to typography

In a bid to be taken more serif-ously US Secretary of State Marco Rubio wants to ditch the Calibri typeface and use Times New Roman

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio: 'Switching to Calibri achieved nothing except the degradation of the department's correspondence.' Picture: AP/Terry Renna

Poor oul Marco Rubio. The man used to be a real politician. Now he’s banning typefaces.

The US secretary of state is supposed to be a job where you’d negotiate on nuclear weapons treaties.