Ecofont – This Font With Holes, Saves One In Your Pocket
“After Dutch holey cheese, there now is a Dutch font with holes as well.”
The company, SPRANQ creative communications, started with a simple question – how much of a letter can be removed while maintaining readability? After extensive testing with all kinds of shapes, the best results were achieved using small circles.
And with that, you get the Ecofont – a font with holes, that promises to use up to 20% less ink (the company did some fancy research with software that compared the average black surface of the letters/ signs of the Ecofont to that of the source font Bitstreeam Vera to come to that number), hence saving you toner ink and money. Given how much I have spent on printer cartridges, this comes as a Godsend.
What’s more, the font is free to download and use, and that too in multiple languages – English, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, etc.
Of course, you could always save toner by decreasing the print DPI, but in the case of draft printouts, a combination of Ecofont and a reduced DPI would help your toner cartridges last even longer.
I think this is pretty neat.
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