The latest innovation that’s going to help save the environment:

So far this year, we’ve had the government withdraw 100w and 75w lightbulbs from sale – a move which could apparently save us up to £7 a year in electricity. (For a particularly amusing account of this, look here. I rather enjoyed the part where it said that ‘the humble incandescent bulb… has become a way of life’. I wasn’t aware people predicated their lifestyles on lightbulbs).

Anyway, the ecofont. The idea is that the font contains lots of tiny circular gaps, so that when it is printed it uses less ink. Here’s a sample, so you can see what I mean:

Its inventors assure us that when used at size 9 or 10, the difference in appearance is negligible, while it means you are using up to 20% less ink.

Best of all, it is completely open source. The Dutch inventors say that they do not intend to make a profit from the font.

Download it here.