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New Font Uses Holes To Cut Ink Use

Posted by timothy on from the more-you-take-away dept.

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."

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  1. Practicality? by Midnight+Thunder · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Looks interesting, but probably not very practical. Surely simply printing in draft mode and in grey-scale is an easier way? On screen this is probably going to be more headache than its worth.

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