Eco-friendly Font

Thanks to SLN user Trailblazer for leading me to the story about this new 'eco-friendly' font - apparently the tiny holes mean that you use less ink. It's a SANS SERIF font of course, as those little extras use up more ink...
It's FREE to download, and have just installed it. Looks a bit untidy when the text size is small, but prints OK.
Just have to stock up on my green ink now....
As Trailblazer suggests, this might be something that schools could use for all printing to help with their eco-friendly status.
Let's think this through a little more - a possible classroom activity:
The whole business of using a computer in the first place, and then printing materials is not particularly eco-friendly.
How could the impact of working in this way be reduced ?

That could be the basis for the enquiry which students are asked to research and present their action plans for... 

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