Wednesday 30 September 2009

Eco-font

No it's nothing to do with water-saving church ceremonies - it's hole-y fonts rather than holy fonts. Interesting to hear via Mark Yoxon that we could be saving 20% on ink if we download a Dutch ecofont which retains the pattern of letters without them being solidly inked-in.

2 comments:

David Chapman said...

This puts me in mind of low-fat spreads. I'd rather have less butter (or less sunflower margarine) than lots of horrible spread!

Perhaps we'd be better off printing less rather than using the eco-font?

But that's probably unfair. Maybe the font isn't horrible. I expect I should give it a try. And I suppose we should be printing less and using the eco font.

chris said...

Yes - I too have mixed feelings about this. At one level it seems to make a lot of sense but it's a first order change in that it's not challenging the number of words we use or the amount of printing we do. I think for drafts this font or draft fonts that use even less ink is fine but for final succinct copy....I'm not sure. I suspect we could get similar results with other interventions...such as billing individuals for paper and ink used?
Chris