How Green is Your Font?
June 1st, 2010 by ame
In an effort of true green font proportions, font fans Matt Robinson and Tom Wriggelsworth decided to draw out large scale type of popular fonts to measure the total ink usage.
As a measurement/six sigma dork, I am loving the data visualization piece of their effort… they used the remaining ink in the ballpoint pens as their means to measure to the total amount of ink used in the experiment.
As you could probably guess, IMPACT scored low “green” marks while the comparatively lean Garamond and Courier were at the top of the class.
And for the retro-type lovers, check out this article on the last generation of typewriters via wired.
[bloggers note: this would have only been more awesome if they used Lorem Ipsum insted...]
//via Matt Robinson
