You mean like Alpha-bits? Also, these were delicious.

Looks like I got my Audience

Remember this one?

Claire Harrten spoke on edible type at one of the recent St Bride Printing Library conferences. The best known edible type is probably the traditional chocolate letters found in The Netherlands.

Don't forget Underware�s type workshop project entitled: The fatter the better. Fresh baked fonts.

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Forget you bag of rune stones? No bother. Just head on down to the closest Piggly-Wiggly, Giant Eagle or 7-11 and grab a can of over-processed pasta drenched in tomato-like sauce. Yes, you too can perform soothsaying via the casting of Alpha-Getti in your very own home.

Don't you just love the internet?

Of course the highest form of type design is through the sculpting of negative space by methodically biting into a largish slab of chocolate. That's the only way the White and the Brown can truly harmonize.

hhp

The delightful and clever Petra Cerne-Oven sent me some very nice alphabetic cookies last year, which included an hilarious account of how she was experimenting with a weight extrapolation technology involving differing amounts of yeast.

I got news for you folk. It appears that we are changing the name type to tokia. So from now on you will set tokia and this forum, as best I can understand will be called Tokiafiles.

I just could not wait to tell you all. I new you would be thrilled.

I love how I used the word new. It's so mod.

So I better look over this thread. It looks like some fun. Back in a minute.

Sorry, edible type makes me hungry. It may be more than a minute. I think I will snack out.

All kidding aside, I think this is a great thread. Would make for a nice little book.

I will look for a Finnish contribution. Finnish Fraktur Potato type, something like that.

Every type-obsessed person has to have gnawed a handful of thin mini-pretzels into an alphabet at some point in his/her life.

I used to make letters with rubber bands... but rubber bands aren't very appetizing. If you could eat type, I wonder what it would taste like. I'd like to see what filosofia taste like. Maybe because it reminds me of tea and crumpets.

Filosofia = tea & crumpets? Are you thinking of Mrs Eaves, perhaps? Filosofia is more like almond biscotti, ragazza!

hhp

Yes, I once saw these alphabet cookie cutters... But they were not in any particular font...

Never eat anything I can't ID, so I didn't buy it.

But seriously, it was a little too expensive. Kicking myself now though. Gonna look for it again.

So this is how I spend my time. Shopping, not buying, kicking myself, then looking for the same ol' things all over again.

Ooh, I like biscotti too.

If it's "Cooking With Notan" you want, Scott Kim, ambigram legend, once baked a cake for his parents' anniversary with his father's name in chocolate icing and his mother's name in vanilla icing, each forming the negative space of the other.

When I sprinkle grated chocolate over cakes, (which actually isn't that often) I usually do it through a freshly cut stencil. But that isn't edible type, really, more like edible ornaments.
I'll have to start doing it with parmesan too.

Oh by the way I had these German chocolate letters lying around for ages, lost and re-found. Type gone bad, gray and yucky...



So I finally took a picture and got rid of them.

Kenn, you just did something nobody's ever managed: you put a slight dent in my appetite for chocolate...

BTW, the Dutch will shortly be at your door for that "GERMAN chocolate letters" business... As if they didn't hate each other enough already, you have to use chocolate as a catalyst for war! ;-)

hhp

Cooking with Notan

LOL!!!!!!

There's quite a few to pick from I'd say . . .

http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=alphabet+cookie

Looks like next TypeCon will be a BYO event!

In an issue of "Design Issues" (I think) a New Zealand
design professor wrote an essay about the type on
biscuits and tins and things. Quite good. Yum.

Hrant, these letters were made and bought in Germany! But I do see a cause for war.
Actually, they weren't even real chocolate but some sort of crappy chocolate substitute. Which is incredibly sad.
The Dutch ones earlier on in this thread look incredibly yummy, I'm kicking myself for not noticing them last time I was there.

don't forget j-lo:
http://www.thirstype.com/playground_jlo.html

I wish I still had a Monotype. Cast some cough drops. Smoker's type.