The Americans haven’t been alright since pirates captured the reference kilogram on its way to the newly independent USA from France, and they sour-grapesed themselves into making wilful archaisms part of their identity.
I would like to change to A4 paper, but in Canada? Good luck even finding it. Staples carries 1 SKU and at $28 for 500 seets it's 4x the price of other paper.
A series is just so practical and simple. Cut a A0 sheet in 2 at the center of the long edge, you get 2x A1, repeat you get 4x A2, etc. This also simplifies production.
8 Comments
deegeese@sopuli.xyz · 31 pts · 2y
The A series is better because it divides easily into smaller sizes, shows more on phones, and portrait monitors.
ByteJunk@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
I like my A sheets, but no paper format is good on screen, it's a whole different medium.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 26 pts · 2y
The Americans haven’t been alright since pirates captured the reference kilogram on its way to the newly independent USA from France, and they sour-grapesed themselves into making wilful archaisms part of their identity.
purplemonkeymad@programming.dev · 4 pts · 2y
Don't forget choosing transmission errors and telling the rest of the world they are saying the name of a metal wrong.
Magnetar@feddit.de · 17 pts · 2y
I never would have believed Canada to be on the dark side of paper formats.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2y
It sucks, trust me…
RalphWolf@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 2y
I would like to change to A4 paper, but in Canada? Good luck even finding it. Staples carries 1 SKU and at $28 for 500 seets it's 4x the price of other paper.
synapse1278@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
A series is just so practical and simple. Cut a A0 sheet in 2 at the center of the long edge, you get 2x A1, repeat you get 4x A2, etc. This also simplifies production.