New Eco Friendly Printing Font Appears To Be Full Of Holes!
Choosing The Right Font For Your Printing & Help Save The Planet!
Well, I’m not saying that this new invention will drastically reduce levels of methane in the atmosphere, nor will it clean up the oceans and help coral to re-grow – but it will make a difference to your contribution to other environmental issues haunting us today.
It will save ink – lots of it.
What Is This Great Idea?
Basically it’s a typeface – like Verdana or Tahoma – that has got holes in it!
It’s called EcoFont, and at normal printing sizes (size 10 for example) it looks just like every other mainstream font. Perfect for printing your emails or on-line receipts.
You can’t see the holes in the letters until you make the font larger – for example up to size 32, but for normal use you won’t really notice them. So you can carry on as normal.
Apparently the Dutch company that invented this EcoFont are called Spranq, and they say that this will save a fifth of the ink used in similar fonts – that is a lot of ink for personal uses.
And let’s be honest, there isn’t a lot of personal printing that needs to be in perfect font, apart from the odd letter to the bank or a job application. The rest of the stuff you print won’t do any harm if it’s a bit ‘holey’ will it?
What Can You use It For?
Well, you can download the font free from ecofont.eu and get a good look at it and see what size you are happiest with – or whether the holes at the larger sizes even bother you that much anyway.
And it can only be used for printing drafts of homework and things at the last minute anyway. I mean, you can write you essays or reports in your preferred fonts and sizes, and only when you want to print the draft can you highlight the whole thing and change the font to EcoFont before printing.
After you have printed you can hightlight it all again and return it to your nice fancy font for the final report. That way it doesn’t have to be your ‘new font’ for ever – it can be your new printing font!
And why would the kids mind if their things were printed in a font with microscopic holes in it anyway?
Think of the money saved in ink-cartridges and the reduced pressure on natural resources by using a fifth less ink than you currently do!
Add this to other eco-office inventions such as the Eco Printing Software and recycled paper and you could be eco friendly and money-saving at the same time!
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