April 12, 2010
Thankfully, No Comic Sans
PlayConnect this super dude and the following typefaces to an “island nation”.
The list of typefaces is not exhaustive
Cracked by: shyam , akhi , Thejas V R , googboog , bobo , krudebox , Goyal , shenoyvarun86 , Shwetha Maiya , Rithwik K , varuns88 , Aparna , madhur , Raghuvansh , PrK , Logik , Rogi , kriskingle , SV , mankuTimma , Dibyo , Bharath , poo , Poornima , udupendra , The One and Only and Mo
Answer:
Quoting Dibyo
Donald Knuth presents cheques for small denominations to readers who find errors in his textbooks, but due to problems with fraud, as of 2008 they have been drawn on the Bank of San Serriffe, a fictional island country.
The places in this fictional island are named after other typefaces, just like San Serriffe is a play on San Serif.
Subscribe
Play
Head 2 Head
this->bb();
April 13th, 2010 at 12:18 am, GMT +0000 ( 1271117937 )
Knuth & San Serriffe :)
April 13th, 2010 at 12:31 am, GMT +0000 ( 1271118714 )
Donald Knuth and Greek typefaces. Knuth made the first Greek fonts for computer typesetting.
April 13th, 2010 at 12:40 am, GMT +0000 ( 1271119233 )
San Seriffe.Knuth’s identify-error-in-textbook-cheque is now drawn on Bank Of Seriffe.
April 13th, 2010 at 12:50 am, GMT +0000 ( 1271119810 )
Sans Seriffe, the fictional island country.
April 13th, 2010 at 12:56 am, GMT +0000 ( 1271120165 )
donald knuth
San Serriffe island (a fictional island created on april fools day 1977 by this guy
April 13th, 2010 at 1:02 am, GMT +0000 ( 1271120563 )
donald knuth draws his error-check cheques from the bank of san serriffe these days (after the spoof island)
April 13th, 2010 at 1:21 am, GMT +0000 ( 1271121686 )
The Fictional Island nation of San Serrife. created as an April Fool’s Joke in the Guardian Newspaper.
Professor Donald Knuth of Stanford University presented cheques drawn on the Bank of San Serriffe. Bodoni, Minion etc are places in the country.
April 13th, 2010 at 1:54 am, GMT +0000 ( 1271123677 )
Donald Knuth & San Sriffe
April 13th, 2010 at 3:06 am, GMT +0000 ( 1271128007 )
Commenting again.
The fictional island is Sans Seriff.
The super dude is Donald Knuth.
Bodoni, Baskerville and Minion are part of the Sans Seriffe fiction.
April 13th, 2010 at 3:47 am, GMT +0000 ( 1271130426 )
San Seriffe, Don Knuth;
Donald Knuth presents cheques for small denominations to readers who find errors in his textbooks, but due to problems with fraud, as of 2008 they have been drawn on the Bank of San Serriffe.
April 13th, 2010 at 3:51 am, GMT +0000 ( 1271130718 )
1. Donald Knuth
2. Sans-serif typeface
3. San Serriffe, fictional island nation created for April Fools’ Day, 1977, by Britain’s Guardian newspaper
April 13th, 2010 at 4:51 am, GMT +0000 ( 1271134274 )
The chap is Donald Knuth
The connect is San Serriffe
All the typesfaces lend its name to various places of “intrest”.
April 13th, 2010 at 5:24 am, GMT +0000 ( 1271136286 )
Donald Knuth’s cheques to readers who find errors in his books are drawn on Bank of San Serriffe.
April 13th, 2010 at 5:29 am, GMT +0000 ( 1271136580 )
San Serriffe
April 13th, 2010 at 6:08 am, GMT +0000 ( 1271138885 )
Donald Knuth established the Bank of San Serriffe which is a fictional island nation with capital Bodoni, port of Baskerville, etc.
April 13th, 2010 at 6:24 am, GMT +0000 ( 1271139898 )
Island nation – San Seriffe.
Dude = Donald Knuth, who issues cheques made out on the Bank of San Seriffe to people who find mistakes in his books.
April 13th, 2010 at 9:36 am, GMT +0000 ( 1271151372 )
Donald Knuth and the fictitious island of San Serriffe with the typefaces as its road names … Don Knuth came up with a fictitious bank name ” Bank of San Serriffe” to give cheques for finding typos in his manuscripts
April 13th, 2010 at 10:11 am, GMT +0000 ( 1271153462 )
Donald knuth. Island of san seriffe created by the guardian as an april fools joke. Bank of san seriffe is mentioned on knuth’s error cheques.
April 13th, 2010 at 11:07 am, GMT +0000 ( 1271156854 )
San Serriffe
April 13th, 2010 at 7:44 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1271187873 )
Professor Donald Knuth and possibly the greatest April fools joke….about the “country” of san Seriffe, with its capital at Bodoni and a Port Baskerville. He issues cheques to readers who find errors in his books, but they are drawn on the Bank of San Seriffe.
April 13th, 2010 at 9:09 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1271192984 )
From the wiki page of San Seriffe: “Professor Donald Knuth of Stanford University presents cheques for small denominations to readers who find errors in his textbooks, but due to problems with fraud, as of 2008 they have been drawn on the Bank of San Serriffe.”
April 13th, 2010 at 9:20 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1271193653 )
The “island nation”(more exactly fictional island nation) is San Serriffe which is a kinda pun on Serif typefaces. Donald Knuth presents cheques for small denominations to readers who find errors in his textbooks, but due to problems with fraud, as of 2008 they have been drawn on the Bank of San Serriffe.
April 13th, 2010 at 11:59 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1271203163 )
Donald Knuth presents cheques for small denominations to readers who find errors in his textbooks, but due to problems with fraud, as of 2008 they have been drawn on the Bank of San Serriffe, a fictional island country.
all those fonts have been created using Metafont, Knuth’s typesetting program
San Seriffe is a play on Sans Serif.
And so on…
April 14th, 2010 at 2:58 am, GMT +0000 ( 1271213888 )
Donald Knuth
And the computer modern family of typefaces used in TEX/LATEX
April 14th, 2010 at 12:07 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1271246848 )
San Serriffe
Donald Knuth
April 14th, 2010 at 10:14 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1271283267 )
San Serriffe
http://www.absoluteastronomy.c.....n_Serriffe
April 14th, 2010 at 10:53 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1271285628 )
San Seriffe (fictional island nation for aprilfoolery by guardian) -> Bank of San Seriffe -> Knuth
April 15th, 2010 at 6:34 am, GMT +0000 ( 1271313246 )
San Serriffe
April 15th, 2010 at 7:48 am, GMT +0000 ( 1271317716 )
maths fonts?
April 15th, 2010 at 8:56 am, GMT +0000 ( 1271321805 )
Knuth to error finders. “Initially, Knuth sent reward checks to the finders. However, he stopped doing so in October 2008, because of problems with check fraud. As a replacement, he started his own “Bank of San Serriffe,” in the fictional nation of San Serriffe which keeps an account for everyone who found an error in or after 2006.[3] In addition, Knuth now sends out “hexadecimal certificates” instead of checks.”