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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Save pens. Use Garamond font

From: Flowing Data

Designers Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth looked at ink usage of some commonly-used typefaces, by hand-drawing them with ballpoint pens.
Scribble, scribble, scribble, and they got this simple bar chart with ink usage measured by, well, ink:



Impact font is such an ink hog. Such a drama queen.

See all the shots here.


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  1. GradysMomFebruary 11, 2010 at 3:30 PM

    you.crack.me.up.

    new tackle...SO many people leave their lights and monitors on at night still. go! :)

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