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<blockquote data-quote="DriveInDriveOut" data-source="post: 1298414" data-attributes="member: 44954"><p>From the mind of a 14 year old kid........</p><p></p><p>Suvir Mirchandani was inspired by an earlier project looking at how to save ink in teacher handouts. He recorded the ink usage of four different fonts—Garamond, Times New Roman, Century Gothic and Comic Sans—and found that Garamond's thin strokes would save his school district 24 percent in ink.</p><p></p><p>Then <a href="http://www.emerginginvestigators.org/2014/03/ink-cost-2/" target="_blank">he decided to apply his results to a bigger scale</a>: the U.S. government. He sampled documents from different government agencies and dug through printing budgets. As <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/27/living/student-money-saving-typeface-garamond-schools/" target="_blank">CNN reports</a>, this is what he found.</p><p></p><p>Using the Government Services Administration's estimated annual cost of ink — $467 million—Suvir concluded that if the federal government used Garamond exclusively it could save nearly 30%—or $136 million per year. An additional $234 million could be saved annually if state governments also jumped on board, he reported.</p><p><a href="http://gizmodo.com/the-us-government-would-save-400-million-if-it-just-sw-1553855397" target="_blank">http://gizmodo.com/the-us-government-would-save-400-million-if-it-just-sw-1553855397</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DriveInDriveOut, post: 1298414, member: 44954"] From the mind of a 14 year old kid........ Suvir Mirchandani was inspired by an earlier project looking at how to save ink in teacher handouts. He recorded the ink usage of four different fonts—Garamond, Times New Roman, Century Gothic and Comic Sans—and found that Garamond's thin strokes would save his school district 24 percent in ink. Then [URL='http://www.emerginginvestigators.org/2014/03/ink-cost-2/']he decided to apply his results to a bigger scale[/URL]: the U.S. government. He sampled documents from different government agencies and dug through printing budgets. As [URL='http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/27/living/student-money-saving-typeface-garamond-schools/']CNN reports[/URL], this is what he found. Using the Government Services Administration's estimated annual cost of ink — $467 million—Suvir concluded that if the federal government used Garamond exclusively it could save nearly 30%—or $136 million per year. An additional $234 million could be saved annually if state governments also jumped on board, he reported. [url]http://gizmodo.com/the-us-government-would-save-400-million-if-it-just-sw-1553855397[/url] [/QUOTE]
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