Comments on: 14-Year-Old’s Simple Idea Could Save US Government $400 Million on Official Documents https://www.odditycentral.com/news/14-year-olds-simple-idea-could-save-us-government-400-million-on-official-documents.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=14-year-olds-simple-idea-could-save-us-government-400-million-on-official-documents A collection of oddities that includes weird places, strange people, bizarre events and other odd stuff from all around the world Tue, 08 Apr 2014 00:57:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Stannous Flouride https://www.odditycentral.com/news/14-year-olds-simple-idea-could-save-us-government-400-million-on-official-documents.html#comment-599884 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 00:57:44 +0000 http://www.odditycentral.com/?p=40227#comment-599884 #4. Nope, a Teenager Didn’t Save the Government $400 Million by Changing Fonts

Every now and then the world is blessed with a viral headline so nonsensical that it sounds like the dying words of a stroke victim. Such is the case with this completely unquestioned story being passed from CNN to Fox, Huffington Post, and CBS:
Apparently if the government switched their font type from Times New Roman to Garamond, they could save a fortune on printing ink costs. It’s that simple! In fact, why haven’t they even considered it before now?

Maybe because the government doesn’t pay for ink — it mostly pays per printed page, so a two-word “F you” memo to Putin costs the same to taxpayers as a page full of One Direction lyrics. Even ignoring that, a lot of government documents are printed with lasers, and even ignoring that, Garamond is a smaller and therefore less legible font, and if you enlarge it to the same size as Times New Roman, it uses up the same amount of ink. But other than that, this story is completely legit.

Read more: http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/4-b.s.-news-stories-that-fooled-your-facebook-friends/#ixzz2yFgPUDhY

]]> By: User https://www.odditycentral.com/news/14-year-olds-simple-idea-could-save-us-government-400-million-on-official-documents.html#comment-599078 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 17:42:45 +0000 http://www.odditycentral.com/?p=40227#comment-599078 No self-respecting bureaucrat would do a thing with this… they measure how good they do their job by the thickness of the paperwork.

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