via Rachel Cannon, who has recently made some great submissions worth checking out over at I Love Old Magazines .

NPR interviewed a professor from the University of Wisconsin who contacted the university IT department upon hearing about Ecofont, a font with tiny holes to reduce ink usage, but after a quick study the computer technitions could do just as well with a font already on their computers: Century Gothic.

The font is a good ink saving option because of it’s thin profile, but because the letters are wide and sits larger it can also use up more paper. A remedy for this would be to condense the character spacing and reduce the printing margins so more text can print on each page. Also be sure to print in ‘draft’ mode and double sided to even further reduce ink and paper usage.

via re-nest

peroty:

buzzandersen:

If Fonts Were Dogs

(via janicemomoko)

This really hits home since I just brought home a rambunctious young Fraktur of my own.

Dogs As Fonts. :D

The difference between arial and helvetica.

Ink usage of common typefaces. (via markellision:Measuring Type)

via nomysteryleft