Are some typefaces less expensive to print than others? The folks at printer.com say you can cut printing costs just by selecting a different font. According to their blog post, you can save up to 31 percent in toner cost by selecting the right font. It also follows by selecting the right font, you will get a “greener” result, that is you are using less toner to get the same results with your documents.

How FontAgent Pro can help you “go green” and save money printing

When you import fonts into FontAgent Pro, it gathers all kinds of information including the “weight” of the font. The weight is calculated by the height and the thickness of the downstrokes of the font. By using the Font Data view in FontAgent Pro, you are able to quickly sort your fonts by weight.

FontAgent Pro makes it very easy to see what the lightest fonts are in your collection and you can start saving money on toner right away switching your documents to one of these fonts.

Money-saving “Smart Sets”

You can also use FontAgent Pro to create a “Smart Set” of lighter fonts.

Click the Find button in the toolbar to launch the Smart Search Window. Then set these search to find all fonts less than a certain weight value. You can experiment with this number to include all but the lightest fonts or to just exclude the heaviest fonts. A value of -0.4 would be a very light font such as Marquisette. A value of .8 represents a very heavy font, such as Bodoni Poster.

Then, after setting your search criteria you can select the Save button and have the results added to a Smart Set. This Smart Set will dynamically update its contents when you add more fonts to your collection. So if you add more light fonts to your collection, FontAgent Pro will update the set automatically. It’s set-it-and-forget-it font organization at its finest.

FontAgent Pro Plus offers several toner saving fonts

FontAgent Pro Plus comes with a collection of 750 OpenType fonts from Bitstream for Macintosh and Windows, including the fonts mentioned earlier in this article. Within this collection there are many fonts that leave a smaller toner footprint, so you can start saving resources right away.

For more information about how FontAgent Pro, and Insider Software’s other font management tools can save you money and streamline you font workflow, visit www.insidersoftware.com.