A great idea, but a few caveats: the font looks a little strange, at least on my computer. I don't even have a printer, so I downloaded it mostly out of interest and cannot report on the print quality myself. If any of you try this, please leave a comment and let us all know how it looks printed out.
The font seems to look better at smaller type sizes, but the website says that the savings in ink get smaller as the font size gets smaller, so by improving the look you may be missing the point of the font in the first place.
The savings in ink also depends on the type of paper you are using, and on the type of printer.
Here is a screen capture of the font at many different sizes:
My verdict? (Again, I don't have a printer so take this with a huge grain of salt.)This seems like a font to use for relatively unimportant things that need to be printed - basic notes or drafts or directions - and not for important documents that need to look nice. However, I'm sure a lot of ink could be saved by using this font in everday life. I'm not really sure of the environmental savings here, but at least extending the life of your ink cartridge will save you money, and that's always good.
It also serves to get us to think about the environmental impact of every aspect in our lives.
If we use this font AND recycled paper AND better printers AND don't print as much in the first place AND etc. etc....
...think of the difference we could make.
P.S. Thanks to Mo for the link!
3 comments:
I saw this somewhere with Charles and we determined that it wouldn't save ink unless the font was 3 bits or larger at its width, because without 3 bits of space it can't take out the middle. Since most fonts that people use are only 2 bits, it doesn't actually change anything. It's a cool concept though... I'd like to see people toy with this idea and make a font that's aesthetically appealing but skinnier than normal fonts or something that's not conditional on font point. Leave it to me to ramble about eco-typography.
I actually printed this out at a size 10 font. It was not only readable, but perfectly usable for a paper for your professor, and actually, the middle dot of "removed font" was there when you looked at it closely.
It definitely looks significantly different on screen but I was actually pleased enough to use it for some of my business presentations!
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