Garamond is an old style font, with serifs intended to mimic the original, chiseled ones and the thick-thin strokes of the letterforms. It also isn’t the most compact of fonts meaning that a given paragraph is going to be somewhat longer because the letters themselves are. Garamond also has a low x-height, which adversely affects legibility because the bodies of the lowercase letters are smaller.
In other words, if this was to be adopted, the cost benefit would be eaten up due to people enlarging the point size for better legibility, and in more paper used because the same amount of text would require more space.
I applaud the kid for thinking in this manner, though. Copier consumables, particularly toner, are an absolutely astounding expense when tallied up over time. Like cell phones, the profit isn’t in the thing itself, it’s derived from the longterm use of it.
Why does anybody pay for cell phone service? Internet calls are free. Also, printers? It is the 21st century, people.
What’s the best font in your opinion?
Give them the razor and they’ll HAVE to buy the blades.
Have ya noticed that printers are almost free these days?