It's Subtle Until It Isn't

I've looked with mild amusement and a bit of disdain on the Marco Rubio font kerfuffle over Calibri and Times New Roman. Of course, it reminds me of the Nazis first banning sans serifs and dictating the use of fraktur typefaces, then banning frakturs as being "Jewish." 

But compared to everything else, it didn't seem worth mentioning. 

I have to bring it up now as context because it was just pointed out to me that if you go to Google and search the names of the designers of Times New Roman and Calibri, the search results page comes back set in those two fonts — rather than the usual custom Google font (Product Sans). 

Stanley Morison's page is set in Times New Roman. It's pretty noticeable to see a serif font on a Google page.

Lucas de Groot's page, in contrast, is set in the lately reviled Calibri.

But these are not the only two.

Matthew Carter's page is set in Verdana. Carter is the best-known living type designer. He was a MacArthur "genius" grant winner in 2010. 

Mark Simonson's page is in Proxima Nova, which has become one of the most commonly used text typefaces on the interweb. 

And — believe it or not — the page of Vincent Connare is set in Comic Sans. That's a sight to behold.