An interesting look at fonts

This is so cool (or maybe I am just a journalism nerd - you tell me). I found this is in a blog post on Flowing Data. Designers Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth decided to study the ink usage of some commonly-used typefaces. To do this, they drew the different fonts with Bic pens.


And the results are.... Drum roll please. To save ink (in your printer cartridge) choose Garamond. And absolutely, positively stay away from Impact.