Yeah, I wish!
According to this article you can seriously cut down on your printer cartridge expense if you change the font.
Btws, the article’s title is “Here’s a legal way to print money: change the font”.
Tell me it doesn’t make you think there’s a legal loophole that lets you legally reprint American dollars if you use a different font!
Now more on topic:
The amount of ink a font drains is mainly driven by the thickness of its lines. A font with “narrow” or “light” in its name is usually better than its “bold” or “black” counterpart, said Thom Brown, an ink researcher at Hewlett-Packard Co., the world’s top maker of printers.
Also, serif fonts — those with short horizontal lines at the top and bottom of characters — tend to use thinner lines and thus less ink than a “sans serif” counterpart.
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay switched to Century Gothic as their default font and claim they’re saving $5-$10K a year (they’re educating about 6500 students and were spending about $100K on ink cartridges a year). I must say, their “new” font is surprisingly readable.
Realistically, a font change will help you save about 1 cartridge a year, but if you own a business (or know someone who knows someone…) this can be quite a money saver. So, pass the word along!
