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New Font Uses Holes To Cut Ink Use
An anonymous reader writes "A Dutch company has taken an open source Sans Serif font and
added holes to it to try and save on printer ink costs. The Ecofont is claimed to save up to 20 percent of ink costs, but it allegedly took the firm a while to perfect the ratio of the maximum number of holes possible without sacrificing readability."
Ah, but lighter weight fonts don't have the magical prefix "eco" in front of their names.
Shouldn't they have done this with a serif font if it is meant to save ink/toner?
They started with a serif font. What's left is sans serif.
I prefer to use Inverted Ecofont, in which everything else is removed and only the holes remain. This saves 80% of the ink, and it known to some people as "dot-matrix draft mode".
This is new font is stupid and not news.
I agree. Their idea is redundant as most letters come pre-made with holes in them.
If you have something that you dont want anyone to know, maybe you shouldnt be doing it in the first place -Eric Schmidt
On an LCD, you should use a dark theme in the winter so that the dark pixels soak up the extra backlight photons and convert them into heat. In the summer, go with a lighter theme that will let all of the photons out before they have a chance to run up your AC bill. Oh, and make sure you set the monitor up near a window so the extra photons can just keep right on going.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
That said, I have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about
Don't worry, it doesn't show.
"The cup is in turn designed for holding hot or cold liquids, and has an open rim and closed base." --US Patent #5425497
You forgot the clever part.
Poke holes in the cookies before serving. The cookies are now 20% healthier!
12 * .8 = 9.6
LIAR!
So "green" is the new "pink" and "eco" is the new "black"? Or is "black" the new "light"? I'm so confused.
You are so dead at the next zebra crossing.
Or modify English spellings to conform with those used by 13 y/ olds in their text messages.
u cn save ink n papr 2 !
Face your daemons!
Really, guys. I'm not that funny.
"The cup is in turn designed for holding hot or cold liquids, and has an open rim and closed base." --US Patent #5425497
Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Unfortunately, since you don't take ink seriously, I'm guessing you are spending too much printing your newsletter and will be out of business shortly.
Bonus tip: if you put everything in quote tags, it saves on black electrons.
"The cup is in turn designed for holding hot or cold liquids, and has an open rim and closed base." --US Patent #5425497
You're not getting it. Those are speed holes. They make the font faster.
I'm waiting for the serif version of that font; there they'll replace the serifs with spoilers. I also think they will add a special Type-R sticker glyph in a Unicode Private Use Area to make it go even faster. Then the only thing that could possibly beat the font would be drift typing - but everyone knows that technique can be handled only by the most extreme Japanese fonts.
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