A Free Font to Save Ink: Meet Ecofont
I will totally admit that I stole this idea from this month’s National Geographic, but I really did think that it is such a good idea that really, I am just passing this on…It’s allowed.
Meet Ecofont. And it looks its best in 10 point. Anything bigger and you can start to see the holes. See what I mean?
The trick is that each letter, number or symbol has all these little holes in it. Holes mean no ink in that spot, obviously, and thus the savings in costly printer ink and more ink cartridges going into landfills by those of us that don’t bother to recycle them (I’m guilty of this sometimes).
Now, it’s not like you are going to save the world with a font here, but if you can conserve ink, why not, right? I have recently gone back to get my masters (the reason for sporadic new posts) and suddenly, I find that I am printing out a lot more than I used to. So this ecofont couldn’t have come at a better time. I cannot give you any quantifiable savings on my end as a newbie user, and I really doubt that I will be able to perceive a discernible difference considering my control (previous amount printed) was just changed. But I have faith that I will save ink, dammit!
Anyhoo, the font is available to you free via this site, ecofont.eu (yes, it’s a European product, because they care more about the world than we do here in ‘merica).
It’s a zip file and it is pretty easy to install. You can read some help files on the site if you find that you are having problems getting the file into your fonts drive, or whatever I did to get this to work. The only problem that I had was trying to find it listed under Ecofont. It’s Spranq eco sans in Word.
National Geographic, ecofont, printing, ink
October 11th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
I think this is a pretty good idea to save ink but, I think it’s better if we can like clear the linear part of it instead of holes and it will look like a word art. But it’s a good idea though.
February 15th, 2010 at 7:52 pm
Every little bit helps. Thank you for posting this.
March 5th, 2010 at 5:10 am
I like the layout of your blog and I’m going to do the same thing for mine. Do you have any tips? Please PM ME on yahoo @ AmandaLovesYou702
March 10th, 2010 at 8:41 pm
I have a clip from the Paris Hilton movie on my website. To bad it got relased onto the net for everyone to look at. She did not want it to be released as it was her ex Rick Salomon that lost it.