The Political Weight of Fonts Link

Thomas Phinney takes a logical walk through the spurious claims that changing fonts will save the US government $400M per year.

There is a different way an effectively smaller font will definitely save money: by allowing multi-​​page documents, especially long ones, to take fewer pages! So maybe it all works out—if you don’t worry about legibility.

Personally, I don’t think many of the documents are even written to be read. They seem more like insurance policies: you’ll read them when it’s time to get a payoff.