Printing font comes with holes
To save on ink and toner costs
Thursday, 18 December 2008, 11:09
A DUTCH graphics, web and new media design firm, Spranq, has designed a font that's shot full of holes.
Based on the open sauce letter font Vera Sans, Ecofont is claimed to reduce printer ink usage by up to 20 per cent, so ink and toner cartridges last longer, cutting printing costs.
Spranq says, "After Dutch holey cheese, there now is a Dutch font with holes as well."
Credit - Spranq
Ecofont is free to download and use. If it catches on well, we can foresee impacts on the revenues of companies that sell carloads of expensive printer ink and toner (HP, cough!). µ
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Or I could just print using my existing fonts in grey rather than black.
Or I could print using a font with a thinner stroke (say 20% thinner) or one point size less.
save paper & ink by not printing ;-)
Since people just love to print huge, black and bold letters. But they would need to put holes in Arial and Times New Roman which everyone uses despite having dozens of fonts to choose.
Next they only have to put holes in every Office clipart and Excel's charts, since for every Power Point presentation in class, there will be a printed version for every student.
Lame.
I second that.
Yeah, screw the nature but keep it neat.
... that I printed it out a short memo for each staff member explaining the benefits of using this font to save ink. It was only then that I realised that printing at normal text size didn't result with much saving (the holes disappear at 10-11 size), so I blew up the font size to 72 to get the maximum ink saving. Each memo ended up being twenty pages long – but at least I had saved a lot of ink!
Mny Englsh wrds hv chrctrs whch r nt rqrd. Ths rdndncy cn b rmved, so prvdng anthr mthd fr svng ink.
Worst meme ever.
In related news, teabags can make up to 50 cups of tea if carefully dried between use and toilet roll if folded correctly can be reused several times.
We need a software tool that would allow us to turn off 20% of the ink droplets.
Printer ink cartridges, that's something the EU need to look into. God knows our own governments won't investigate the price fixing, those corrupt swines.
Your sarcasm detector is obviously fully functional. How sad must one be to want to register with a nickname purely to spite a poster – there’s the "worst meme ever" right there! Such a reaction might be in keeping from one who believes the ecofont will go some way to saving the planet.....