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Chocolate letters are a form of candy associated with the Dutch holiday of Sinterklaas
Sinterklaas

||-||-||-||-||-||-||}Sinterklaas and Saint Nicolas in French) is a traditional Winter holiday figure in the Netherlands, Aruba, Netherlands Antilles and Belgium, celebrated every year on Saint Nicholas' eve or, in Belgium, on the morning of December 6....
 (Saint Nicholas). Celebrants of the Sinterklaas celebration are traditionally given their initials (or occasionally the neutral letter S (for Sinterklaas) or P (for Zwarte Piet
Zwarte Piet

In the folklore and legends of the Netherlands and Flanders, Zwarte Piet is a Companions of Saint Nicholas whose yearly feast in the Netherlands is 5 December and 6 December in Flanders, when they distribute presents to all good children....
) made out of chocolate. Various sizes, types and flavours are available.

In order to use the same amount of chocolate for each letter the manufacturer varies the thickness or the depth of the grooves in the letter.






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Chocolate letters are a form of candy associated with the Dutch holiday of Sinterklaas
Sinterklaas

||-||-||-||-||-||-||}Sinterklaas and Saint Nicolas in French) is a traditional Winter holiday figure in the Netherlands, Aruba, Netherlands Antilles and Belgium, celebrated every year on Saint Nicholas' eve or, in Belgium, on the morning of December 6....
 (Saint Nicholas). Celebrants of the Sinterklaas celebration are traditionally given their initials (or occasionally the neutral letter S (for Sinterklaas) or P (for Zwarte Piet
Zwarte Piet

In the folklore and legends of the Netherlands and Flanders, Zwarte Piet is a Companions of Saint Nicholas whose yearly feast in the Netherlands is 5 December and 6 December in Flanders, when they distribute presents to all good children....
) made out of chocolate. Various sizes, types and flavours are available.

In order to use the same amount of chocolate for each letter the manufacturer varies the thickness or the depth of the grooves in the letter. This way one letter is not favoured over another, for example the W, or the M over the I or the J.

An often used typeface
Typeface

In typography, a typeface is a set of one or more fonts, in one or more sizes, designed with stylistic unity, each comprising a coordinated set of glyphs....
 is Egyptienne
Egyptienne

Egyptienne is a serif typeface belonging to the classification slab serif, or Egyptian, where the serifs are unbracketed and similar in weight to the horizontal strokes of the Grapheme....
.

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  • , explains the origin and current use of chocolate letters in the Netherlands.