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The economy of type

Designers Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth conducted a little experiment to measure the economy of type: they hand-lettered large-scale samples of commonly used typefaces using ballpoint pens.

The pens themselves form a neat bar graph—the remaining ink levels indicate their findings.

[via Flowing Data]

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