Ecofont saves ink and the environment

There are many things we can do to save our printer's ink like using unbleached paper, an efficient printer, and printing only when necessary, but SPRANQ developed one more alternative called the Ecofont. The Dutch company says their new font design uses up to 20 percent less ink.

How is this possible? Well the secret is in the font's design, which is modeled after Swiss cheese. The creative designers first experimented with zebra striped fonts and thin letters, before deciding that a font with tiny holes in the middle would be the best way to preserve the size and outline of the letters.

Ecofont is compatible with Mac OSX, Windows, and Linux, and works just fine in OpenOffice, AppleWorks, and MS Office 2007. You can download the font for free over at Ecofont.

Try it out, then come back to tell us if you see much of a difference.