Alert reader and new Seabury Dean (well, “Associate Dean and Registrar,”) Micah calls my attention to the front page of this week’s The Onion — specifically the “In the News” headlines relative to “Copies of Da Vinci Code Litter Crash Site,” and “Alpha-Bits Now Available In Serif Font.”
I commented on both of these over at flickr, but since not everyone here will go over there, I’ll note regarding the da Vinci Code image, that that’s what happens when you load up a plane with too much trash (I can’t believe they’re still selling like hotcakes in hardback!). I’m hoping that Doc’s misfortune (reported by Euan) had nothing to do with da Vinci-related instability.
All the flights that were carrying readers of What Is Postmodern Biblical Criticism? landed safely, you notice.
And regarding the Alpha-Bits image, the funny part is that (if I recall correctly) Alpha-Bits always had serifs; remember the H's and T's?
Posted by AKMA at July 14, 2004 12:56 PM | TrackBackOh, AKMA, you know how I hate to correct you (fortunately, I'm not able to do it very often), but according to http://www.thinkalphabits.com/, the cereal is sans-serif. At least, that's the way it looks from the freely downloadable Alpha-bits font. I suppose that it could be an innovation.
And don't forget to take the Alpha-bits history quiz!
Posted by: Micah at July 14, 2004 02:45 PMMicah, do you mean that the freeby typeface looks sans-serif, or that somewhere the site asserts that the cereal letters are sans-serif. The photos of the cereal sure look as though there are serifs on the glyphs. Look at the feet of the A and the P's on this page, and at the B on the box itself.
Posted by: AKMA at July 14, 2004 06:06 PM