Key stroke of genius! Teenager finds way for government to save $400MILLION a year just by changing their font
A 14-year-old student from Pennsylvania could help the government save nearly $400 million a year thanks to his ingenious science fair project.
Suvir Mirchandani found that millions of dollars a year could be saved by his school district and government agencies, just by switching to Garamond font.
When he compared the price of ink, which is more than a bottle of perfume, and the number of documents printed each year, the teenager realized he could cut waste and save money.
The idea for his science fair project on type fonts came when he noticed he was being given a large number of handouts at his Dorseyville Middle School.
And, while everyone tries to recycle paper and print on both sides to cut waste, there had been little research into how to reduce the amount of ink used.
'Ink is two times more expensive than French perfume by volume,' Suvir told CNN.
To find a way to cut costs and ink usage, he collected samples of his school's handouts and looked at the most commonly used letters - e, t, a, o and r.
He then measured how much ink those letters used in four popular typefaces, by using APFill® Ink Coverage Software.
