Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Save money and the environment

More than ever we depend on innovation.
With the tools and toys we are using now, slowly we are destroying the earth we are living on.

Every little step of innovation therefore is vital and one of those is now made by a company in the Netherlands called Spranq.

They have come up with a way to save 20 % on the use of ink when printing.
Any kind of printing.
It can be the newspaper or a book.
And even the print you make at home with any computer printer saving you dramatically on spending money on ink cartridges.

What did these smart fellows invent then?

They were inspired by Swiss cheese.
Besides tasting well, Swiss cheese has holes in its substance.
Result of air that was inside the cheese during the fermentation process.

The Spranq people figured out that if they would make holes in the letters, less ink would be needed.
This is what they did.
They took an existing letter: the Vera Sans.
And put the font full of holes.
This technique can be applied to any font of course.







The good news is that this font is available for free.
Any person can download it from the website of Spranq.
To use it, save money and most important: to be eco-friendly.

Isn’t that a nice Xmas present?
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To learn more about the Ecofont and to download it for free, click on:
http://www.spranq.nl/en/






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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Michel,

let me wish you a good christmas and a fruitfull and sucessfull 2009. Thanks for your blog so far, which means a lot of inspiration to me. Keep the good work going!

Jaap

Anonymous said...

Thank you for the link to the new font. i will install it in a day or two when the pace slows down a little.
merry Christmas

Rojo