via inspirationlab.files.wordpress.com In my world, almost all roads lead to Futura, Helvetica and Arial.
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- tyrockasaurus: i sent that font chart to IT and communications. gonna see if we can do something with that. it's really interesting.
- tyrockasaurus: wow. my boss and everyone is already all impressed with me.
- me: hahahaha that's amazing! century gothic for the win.
- tyrockasaurus: haha. yeah. they're all emailing it to each other now.
- me: hee hee. especially germans would be alllll over that.
- tyrockasaurus: it wouldn't be enough to please them. we are never efficient enough for them.
- me: bahahahahaha. you should convince them to switch to blackle.com and white on black emails to save energy.
- tyrockasaurus: you mean on the screen?
- me: yep.
- tyrockasaurus: oh that would be painful
- me: yeah, it's kind of intense. but who knew goths on the internet were saving us so much energy?
- tyrockasaurus: ahahahahaha oh the goths. reluctantly saving our futures.
- me: hee hee. the irony is BITING.
- tyrockasaurus: that's such a south park episode waiting to happen
- me: seriously.
NPR interviewed a professor from the University of Wisconsin who contacted the university IT department upon hearing about Ecofont, a font with tiny holes to reduce ink usage, but after a quick study the computer technitions could do just as well with a font already on their computers: Century Gothic.
The font is a good ink saving option because of it’s thin profile, but because the letters are wide and sits larger it can also use up more paper. A remedy for this would be to condense the character spacing and reduce the printing margins so more text can print on each page. Also be sure to print in ‘draft’ mode and double sided to even further reduce ink and paper usage.
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This is something I have given a lot of thought to. Also, in keeping with my earlier post, why I prefer to spell the American way. The way I see it, those extra “u”s are totally unnecessary, and cutting them out is efficient. That said, I’d like to keep the “a” in aesthetics.
The difference between arial and helvetica.
