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How To Save Ink

By Tim Tyson on January 29, 2010 11:31 AM | Be the First to Comment | No TrackBacks | Share this:

Now this was a clever guy! He wanted to see which fonts used the least and most amount of ink. So he bought a bunch of Bic ballpoint pens and found out by coloring in the fonts with the pens. The last slide in the photo gallery shows the results of his findings, again, in a very clever way.

Creative dude.

A selection of the most commonly used typefaces were compared for how economical they are with the amount of ink which they use at the same point size. Large scale renditions of the typefaces were drawn out with ballpoint pens, allowing the remaining ink levels to display the ink efficiency of each typeface.

Collaboration with Tom Wrigglesworth.

Source: Matt Robinson's Website

Click this first image to see all of the images in his gallery.