The University of Wisconsin - Green Bay has made a money saving change that is getting national attention. They have requested that staff, faculty, and students change fonts from Arial to Century New Gothic for all printed documents to save an estimated $5,000 to $10,000 annually on ink and toner. If you missed this news item last week you can read the whole story here.
Estimated savings for a household making the same change - $20 a year. As fiscally foolish as it may be I'm sticking with Georgia*. Life is too short to use an unattractive font.
*Georgia is designed for clarity on a computer monitor even at small sizes, partially effective due to a large x-height. The typeface is named after a tabloid headline titled "Alien heads found in Georgia." (Cool!) - from Wikipedia
Alrighty, I'm sending a link to your site to my co-worker, Barb, who swears printing in colour is not more costly than black and white - imagine if the font can save this much, how much does b&w save???
ReplyDeleteI'm a Futura and Garamond gal myself.
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