Ha!
You'll not be WORRIED about fonts after THIS!!!
Posted on 03/28/2014 5:37:46 PM PDT by mandaladon
Fourteen-year-old Suvir Mirchandani found a way to save the federal and state governments almost $400 million from their yearly budgets just by changing the typeface they use on handouts. The best choice? Garamond!
Mirchandani’s school was looking for ways to save money, but he noticed no one was paying attention to the ink used on its many handouts. He noticed that Hewlett-Packard printer ink is $75 an ounce, while an equivalent amount of French perfume is only $38.
Here is how he came to the conclusion that Garamond is the best choice:
Collecting random samples of teachers' handouts, Suvir concentrated on the most commonly used characters (e, t, a, o and r).
First, he charted how often each character was used in four different typefaces: Garamond, Times New Roman, Century Gothic and Comic Sans. Then he measured how much ink was used for each letter, using a commercial tool called APFill® Ink Coverage Software.
Next he enlarged the letters, printed them and cut them out on cardstock paper to weigh them to verify his findings. He did three trials for each letter, graphing the ink usage for each font.
From this analysis, Suvir figured out that by using Garamond with its thinner strokes, his school district could reduce its ink consumption by 24%, and in turn save as much as $21,000 annually.
He then used the data to project how much the government, both at the federal and state levels, could save via the switch.
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There’s not one individual font that is best across the board, it depends upon the usage and aesthetic considerations if any.
What is your favorite for every day reading?
There’s a reason Times Roman and variants are so widely used. Serifs aid in legibility within large copy blocks.
That doesn’t mean it’s my favorite font, just that the utility of it is hard to deny. I actually ‘like” Helvetica Serif better, conflict in terms though that name may appear to be. I just wouldn’t use it for extensive pbody copy.
Telepresence will continue to grow as a useful way to communicate over distances. Car sharing, however, will never, ever work. See: The tragedy of the commons.
Most free fonts aren't worth what you pay for them. Creating a quality font is a lot of work. There are some great free ones out there, but just about all of them were designed by professionals.
Government offices still use ink jet printers? No wonder everything they do takes so long.
Maybe FreeRepublic could save money by changing the font too?
Heck, I stopped using inkjets about 7 years ago. No need for color and whatever pictures my wife has printed at W-Mart, doesn't come close to the cost of printing them with colored ink and special paper.
If I were to throw out a laser printer when the toner ran out, I would still be printing cheaper than if I used a ink printer.
Missing from analyses such as these is the true cost of documents. Ink and paper are trivial compared with the cost of composing, editing, and reading documents. The biggest savings, by far, in the production of documents is a decision, early on, to never produce the unnecessary ones in the first place.
75 dollars an ounce? I have an Idea!
You LIKE your font?
You can KEEP your font - just use the next size SMALLER!
After all; eyeglasses are COVERED under Obamacare!
Any information that is REALLY needed can up uploaded to your personal Telescreen© for perusal at your leisure.
If you know where to drill the hole!
Sheryl also told us how to use less paper...
Ha!
You'll not be WORRIED about fonts after THIS!!!
Uh...
Because it CAN?
GMTA
Give them the razor and they’ll HAVE to buy the blades.
Have ya noticed that printers are almost free these days?
Maybe. What kind of bird is it?
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