Eco Font - Ink Saving Font

Looking at the response I got for the Blackle - Energy Saving Search Engine I was urged to share a few economical cool tips.

What is Economy Font?

This may be a new concept now but will very soon become a basic necessity or a compulsion in all corporates. The usage of Economy fonts. These are fonts that have holes in them. Thus the usage of printing ink is minimised.

Instead of using a regular font for an item that you want to print, why not use an economy font? An economy font reduces the amount of ink by 37% that your printer uses to print it, and remains legible.

Couple of experiments were done while designing the font. One of the suggestions was to have holes in them arbitly but that suggestion was not taken as the characters were not legible.

The Design

Here is how the economy font looks as compared to any other font.

The legibility is maintained and the ink is saved. Could be very useful for those having their own business or have loads of printing to be done on a regular basis.

Like it? Download the Economy Font here.

Tips to Install this font.

After you have downloaded the font follow these steps to install them on your computer. Ensure to unzip the font before you start the installation process.

• Open Fonts by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, and then clicking Fonts.
• Click File, and then click Install New Font. If you don’t see the File menu, press ALT.
• In the Add Fonts dialog box, under Drives, click the drive where the font that you want to install is located.
• Under Folders, double-click the folder containing the fonts that you want to add.
• Under List of fonts, click the font that you want to add, and then click Install

So enjoy saving ink and money & spread the word. :)

Blackle - Energy Saving Search Engine

Google is the second Brain to many of us. We use it frequently. However, the white screen which it uses consumes high power. If Google had a black screen, taking in Account the huge number of page views, according to calculations, around 750 mega watts/hour per year would be saved.

In response, Google created a black version of its search engine, called Blackle, with the exact same functions as the white version, but obviously with lower energy consumption.

The concept behind Blackle is that computer monitors can be made to consume less energy by displaying much darker colors. Blackle is based on a study which tested a variety of CRT and LCD monitors. Dispute over whether there really are any energy saving effects.

This concept was first brought to the attention of Heap Media by a blog post, which estimated that Google could save 750.0 megawatt-hours a year by utilizing it for CRT screens. The homepage of Blackle provides a count of the number of megawatt-hours that have supposedly been saved by enabling this concept.

Darren Yates, a technology journalist who reviews computer hardware, tested 4 CRT monitors and 23 LCD monitors, and found that the CRT monitors did use more energy displaying a white screen, but less than the calculations made by the blog post that inspired Blackle.

The LCD monitors tested showed slightly less power use displaying a white screen in the majority of cases, although most of the larger (24-inch) monitors did use slightly less power displaying a black screen.

Do your bit and save some energy and help for a good cause. Use Blackle avoide Google.