From ZDNet, By Doc | April 8, 2010, 5:26am PDT
"Believe it or not, a font switch can be a real money saver. Doc was intrigued by this recent post from my fellow ZDNet bloggers over at the “Between the Lines” blog, which reveals how making a simple switch from 11-point Arial font to 10-point Century Gothic font can lead to some significant savings. You see Century Gothic is a lighter weight font by about 30%, than Arial. The theory, then, is that less font equals less ink. Check out the post for details on other fonts for the frugal."
"Pondering this lead Doc to a commercial software product called Ecofont, which accomplishes the same goal by automatically putting “Swiss cheese-like holes” in your standard fonts. This, the company claims, saves on ink and toner but doesn’t affect legibility."
Here’s something interesting to ponder on a humpday afternoon: Does anyone ever really give much thought to the font that’s being used on the screen?
Oh sure, some fonts are more visually appealing than others but is there any real benefit of using one font over another - a financial benefit, that is? Apparently there is - and for companies with dozens of printers spitting out hundreds or thousands of pages per day, switching to another font could impact the bottom line
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Some tests by printer.com, via a post on CNET’s Digital Media blog, found that the use of the 10-point Century Gothic font is 31 percent cheaper than using the default 11-point Arial font.
I kid you not, these tests were conducted and results calculated to come up with these conclusions. From the CNET post:
On a dollar basis, the company projected that the average person printing around 25 pages a week would save $20 a year by using Century Gothic for all documents. A business or heavy-duty user printing 250 pages per week would save around $80 for the year. And large companies with multiple printers could potentially save hundreds of dollars a year.
