Gruber links to the original copy of the memo that he managed to obtain through 'sources':

* https://daringfireball.net/misc/2025/12/state-department-ret...

* Via: https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/full_text_of_marco_rubio_...

Gruber's commentary:

> Rubio’s memo makes the argument — correctly — that aesthetics matter, and that the argument that Calibri was in any way more accessible than Times New Roman was bogus. Rubio’s memo does not lash out against accessibility as a concern or goal. He simply makes the argument that Blinken’s order mandating Calibri in the name of accessibility was an empty gesture. Purely performative, at the cost of aesthetics.

[…]

> 2024 was a Biden year, not a Trump year, so there’s no reason to think the remediation numbers were counted differently. The change to Calibri was the worst kind of accessibility effort: one that was founded on nothing more than feel-good performance. It was a change everyone could see and notice, but one that had no practical benefit whatsoever. Good on Rubio for rescinding a bad decision, and even better for doing so with a fair and informative explanation.^2

Gruber is no fan of the Trump administrator generally, but he thinks in this case it seems that they/Rubio got it right.

He also recently had a post on the various style guides of various US federal courts:

* https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/the_fonts_of_the_us_feder...