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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. Re:+1 PARENT. Saves paper too. by Beardo+the+Bearded · · Score: 0, Troll

    No, we're trying to increase the quality of the trolling.

    I'd rather see cookie recipes than the shit-eating porn or the guide to caring for your new nigger or hidden links to goatse guy.

    Cookie recipes? Fucking A delicious... even if the recipe is a little wrong.

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  2. Re:What a fucking stupid idea! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Fail. This font offers standard-to-low readability and low ink usage. Your "much better" proposal offers low readability with low ink usage. Combine the 2 and you have low readability and really low ink usage. /Who are the retards who mod this shit up?