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FarCenter

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18. Or they could just close the Government Printing Office and use digital distribution

Reply to hunter (Reply #14)

Fri Mar 28, 2014, 06:02 PM

Mar 2014

A few weeks ago, the news showed a video of stacks of the printed budget being handed out to members of Congress, etc.

Totally useless -- they won't enact it, much less read it. Might as well have saved the expense and materials. And having leafed through one some time ago, it is not clear from the printed budget what we would be getting for the money.

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The US Government Would Save $400 Million If It Just Switched Typefaces [View all] alp227 Mar 2014 OP

Wouldn't a sans serif font save even more? 1000words Mar 2014 #1

Not necessarily. Wait Wut Mar 2014 #2

I would guess that a sans serif doesn't have the "contrast" that allow thin strokes on serif fonts. immoderate Mar 2014 #5

Sans serif fonts tend to be harder to read in large blocks... Wounded Bear Mar 2014 #11

Off to the Greatest Page with ya, Suvir Mirchandani. Salute! nt ChisolmTrailDem Mar 2014 #3

Smart! cyberswede Mar 2014 #4

The government uses more than one font jmowreader Mar 2014 #6

Let's see... KansDem Mar 2014 #7

LOL kydo Mar 2014 #10

I'm a Palatino Linotype man myself, but QC Mar 2014 #8

You can save a lot of paper by going to two column pages with 1/4 inch margins. FarCenter Mar 2014 #9

r jst skp th vwls. hunter Mar 2014 #14

Wheel Of Fortune contestants would appreciate that too.... Cooley Hurd Mar 2014 #16

Or they could just close the Government Printing Office and use digital distribution FarCenter Mar 2014 #18

Just saying what they mean without all the bureaucratic BS BlueStreak Mar 2014 #26

Interesting! fascisthunter Mar 2014 #12

We're looking at this wrong. Maedhros Mar 2014 #13

What people don't understand is that the military has been getting rid of their depleted uranium BlueStreak Mar 2014 #27

I'm an Arial fan, myself. Cooley Hurd Mar 2014 #15

They'd actually save more just by eliminating the penny, iirc... Blue_Tires Mar 2014 #17

What's ink? mahannah Mar 2014 #19

Garamond. I'll keep that in mind because what's not good about less ink? LiberalAndProud Mar 2014 #20

I have over 150 fonts available in OpenOffice Writer, but no Garamond muriel_volestrangler Mar 2014 #21

Free here BlueStreak Mar 2014 #28

Other Considerations Treant Mar 2014 #22

I still prefer Ariel. malthaussen Mar 2014 #23

I prefer Optima and use if as default online by overriding website fonts and writing offline: freshwest Mar 2014 #24

For Social Security forms, they should splurge on ink by upping the point size. Jim Lane Mar 2014 #25

Or they can stop printing out all those fucking practice standardized tests NoOneMan Mar 2014 #29