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-Title: Change font, save the world (and some money)
+Title: Change the font, save the world (and save some money in the process)
 Tags: english
-Date: 2013-03-26 15:00
+Date: 2013-03-26 15:10
 
 <p>Would you like to help the environment and save money at the same
 time, without much sacrifice?  A small step could be to change the
 font you use when printing.</p>
 
 <p>Three years ago,
-<ahref="http://arstechnica.com/business/2010/04/last-year-printer-comparison-website/">Arts
-Techinca</a> reported how the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
+<a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2010/04/last-year-printer-comparison-website/">Ars
+Technica</a> reported how the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
 changed their default front from
-<ahref="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial">Arial</a> to
-<ahref="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Gothic">Century
+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial">Arial</a> to
+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Gothic">Century
 Gothic</a> to save money.  The Century Gothic font uses 30% less toner
 than Arial to print the same text.  In other word, you could cut your
 toner costs by 30% (or actually, increase your toner supply life time
-by 30%, by simply changing the default font used in your prints.</p>
+by more than 30%), by simply changing the default font used in your
+prints.</p>
 
-<p>But it is not quite obvious how much one will safe by switching.
-The University of Wisconsis-Green Bay said it used $100,000 per year
-on unk and toner cartridges, according to
-<ahref="http://www.twincities.com/ci_14833097">a report from
+<p>But it is not quite obvious how much one will save by switching.
+The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay said it used $100,000 per year
+on ink and toner cartridges, according to
+<a href="http://www.twincities.com/ci_14833097">a report from
 TwinCities.com</a>, and expected to save between $5,000 and $10,000
 per year by asking staff and students to use a different font.  Not
-all PDFs are created interally, and those from external sources will
-still use their "native" font.  Also, the Century Gothic font is
-slightly wider than Arial, and thus might use more sheets of paper to
-print the same text, so the savings depend on the usage.</p>
+all PDFs and documents are created internally, and those from external
+sources will most likely still use a different font.  Also, the
+Century Gothic font is slightly wider than Arial, and thus might use
+more sheets of paper to print the same text, so the total saving
+depend on the documents printed.</p>
 
 <p>But it is definitely something to consider, if you want to reduce
-the amount of trash, decrease the amount of toner used in the world
+the amount of trash, decrease the amount of toner used in the world,
 and save some money in the process.</p>
+
+<p>Update 2013-04-10: If you want to know how much ink/toner could be
+saved when switching between fonts, Inkfarm got a
+<a href="http://www.inkfarm.com/What-the-Font">service to calculate the
+difference between font pairs</a>.  They also
+<a href="http://www.inkfarm.com/Recommended-Ink-Saving-Fonts---">recommend
+which fonts to use</a> to save ink.  Check it out. :) While updating
+this blog post, I also came across a blog post from InkCloners,
+<a href="http://inkcloners.com/blog/ink-cartridges/change-fonts-to-save-ink-costs/">listing
+the fonts they recommend</a>, with Centory Gothic at the top.</p>