While looking through (of all places) my wife’s ‘O’ (Oprah) Magazine I came accross a short snippet about ‘Eco-Font’ a new true type font that uses less ink by containing little holes in the letters. The font is the brainchild of a Dutch company called Spranq who were looking for ways to reduce the environmental costs of printing. The swiss cheese-style font uses 15-20% less ink and perfectly readable when the font size is kept to 12pt or below. The fonts designers recommend using a font size of 9 or 10 and using the font anytime you are printing draft documents or internal memos
Ecofont is free to download at Ecofont.eu and is compatible with Windows (Vista and XP), Mac OSX and Linux (the website provides installation instructions). Eco-font is based on an open source font, and Spranq is inviting developers to improve the font further. Other language character sets are under development.