Typographically perfect holiday destination

Posted by Ben S on 24/02/2012

When planning a typographers Stag Do there can only be one destination, the island of San Serriffe in the Indian Ocean. A fantastically exciting place, which will soon be on the lips of the rich and type-aware, everywhere.

“Tourists fortunate enough to be permitted to visit the Flong settlements of San Serriffe during the summer solstice will be rewarded by the colourful spectacle of the Gallee sect stamping and shrieking in unison in the Dance of the Pied Slugs.”

Quoted in The Guardian on April 1, 1977
San Serriffe is an archipelago consisting of two main islands and a number of smaller ones. Of the larger islands, the more northerly (the Caissa Superiore or Upper Caisse) is roughly round and the more southerly (the Caissa Inferiore or Lower Caisse) round but with a promontory extending south-westwards from the south-east, at Thirty Point. The two major islands are separated by the Shoals of Adze, dominated by Cap Em. A major inland feature is a swamp, the Woj of Type.
Quoted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Serriffe

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