The A series is better because it divides easily into smaller sizes, shows more on phones, and portrait monitors.
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I like my A sheets, but no paper format is good on screen, it's a whole different medium.
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.
Don't forget choosing transmission errors and telling the rest of the world they are saying the name of a metal wrong.
I never would have believed Canada to be on the dark side of paper formats.
It sucks, trust me…
The biggest advantage of A4 isn't explained clearly: since it follows √2 ratios, you can reduce by half and get it to fit exactly 2 pages of information on 1 sheet, so you can make any document into a 2-per-page booklet with perfect formatting.
If you try to print 2 pages per page with US Letter, you get massive waste and it looks terrible.
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.