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Think of all the time that would be spent in meetings, all the time it would take to re-configure documents and processes to use the new fonts, then all the little stuff down the road like some OCR system doesn't pick the new font up, handling complaints from people that the new font is too hard to see...

Not to say it's not a good idea, there's just potentially a lot of side effects.

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I think $100M per year makes up for those side effects.

There will always be people whose workflows are interrupted by a new change, and legacy systems that don't like it for their own reasons. There are already systems in place to handle their complaints, because this is an expected part of any change in a large organisation, and is barely worth mentioning.

"I think $100M per year makes up for those side effects."

You underestimate how much money governments can spend on meetings :)

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