A selection of the most commonly used typefaces were compared for how economical they are with the amount of ink which they use at the same point size. Large scale renditions of the typefaces were drawn out with ballpoint pens, allowing the remaining ink levels to display the ink efficiency of each typeface.
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“Measuring Type” - wow a good chunk of effort went into this, but cool result…
Hmm… I’ll have to remember this for when I’m typing my Western Civilizations research paper, Neuroscience term paper,...
very interesting
Henceforth Garamond it is then.
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