AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A Dutch company looking for ways to reduce the environmental costs of printing has developed a new font that it says cuts ink usage by about 15 percent.
In essence, the "Ecofont" has little holes in the letters.
Spranq, the Utrecht-based marketing and communications company that designed the font, struck on a Swiss-cheese design after failures with earlier experiments using thin letters and partial letters — like the stripes of a zebra.
"It turns out that it's necessary to preserve the size and outline of letters to keep them readable," company co-founder Gerjon Zomer says.
He concedes the font isn't beautiful, but says it could be adequate for personal use or for internal use at a company.
Spranq offers the font free on its Web site. Zomer says his site saw a spike in traffic last week as word of the Ecofont began to spread. Much of the international traffic came from the United States.
He says that was kind of gratifying because "when you put something online you never know what to expect."
The company is inviting developers to improve the Ecofont further under a free, open-source model, and Zomer says Arabic and Hebrew versions are already under development.
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On the Net: http://www.ecofont.eu
"荷兰一家公司开发出了一种环保字体，叫Ecofont。据说用这种字体打印最多可以节省20%的墨。发明者说这种字体看起来或许并不美观，但是对于个人使用或者公司内部使用基本上也够了。这种字体可以免费下载，这里是公司网站。"
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