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What the Font?


Want to switch to the Century Schoolbook and wondering what the font will do to your ink costs? Well, wonder no longer, the slide-rule nerds at Inkfarm.com have come to the rescue with our handy-dandy ink-usage calculator, below. Just select the font you're using now, and the font you're thinking of using - and find out what the font will save (or cost) you in ink.

And you said we haven't done anything for you lately!

Our specific recommendations for ink-saving fonts are here.



  4 Comments

Red    8.01.11

This article's great.

Bryn    10.18.11

This is potentially very valuable but what is 'coverage factor'? I am keen to distinguish between how the font spreads across the page and the amount of toner (ink) required to make the marks.

Inkfarm Mike     4.24.12

It's a number that's proportional to the amount of ink used to print a given piece of text. Its measured in units of area, something like square inches. So if font X covered one square inch of paper in printing a certain paragraph and font Y covered 2 square inches of ink in printing the same paragraph, then font Y would have twice the coverage factor and use 100% more ink.

CarlH    10.20.11

Okay on the Century Schoolbook font, but say the recipient of your email does not have that font, how is it going to look on the other end? What font will their computer pick to compensate for the Century Schoolbook font?

tylerg     12.13.11

Century Schoolbook is an accepted font in HTML 4 so it should show up in an email. And if you are wanting to make something more ink efficient to print you can change everything to Century Schoolbook in a program like Microsoft Word or Open Office before you print it.

green pdf    1.18.12

according your own tool, "Calibri" should be considered more than Century Schoolbook, or I don't get the tool ?

BTW the recommendations font link is dead.



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