Sustainable. Beautiful. Free
Ryman Eco is an environmentally sustainable typeface launched by UK stationery retailer Ryman. It uses an average of 33% less ink than standard fonts.
Designed by Monotype Type Director Dan Rhatigan, in collaboration with Grey London, the objective was to create the world's most beautiful, sustainable font. Eco friendly design often means compromise to aesthetic desirability.
Mindful of this the ambition for Ryman Eco was to find the optimum balance between saving ink, legibility and beauty. The font has been received positively by environmentalists and the design community alike.
Every year, more than 65 million printer cartridges are sold in the UK and almost 1.5 billion globally. The cartridges, whether laser or toner, are comprised of various toxic, oil-intensive, and largely non-biodegradable materials that can take over 1000 years to break down.
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Ryman Eco uses an average 33% less ink than a suite of standard fonts including Arial, Times New Roman, Georgia and Verdana. The font is cleverly designed to capitalise on the ink bleed and toner spill that occurs on home and office printers.
Ryman Eco takes advantage of how ink bleeds on paper to create a less ink-intensive font as each character form is a series of fine lines, "so at smaller sizes (10 to 14 point size) the lines appear to merge from ink bleed, whereas at larger sizes, the lines become an interesting visual characteristic of the typeface.
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