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From: eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
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Subject: Re: Naming of Non-CM Fonts
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Date: 4 Feb 91 16:25:13 GMT
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TeXhax@cs.washington.edu writes:

>A RECOMMENDATION FOR THE NAMING of NON-CM FONTS USED IN TeX

Are you aware that there was an article in TUGboat about
just this issue?

To summarise in two line:
Karl Berry proposed a naming convention
 FTTWVEDD
where 
F  = Foundry (autologic, bitstream, ...
TT = Typeface family (Garamond, Avant Garde, ...
W  = Weight (hairline, bold, light, ...
V  = Variant (small caps, oblique, typewriter, ...
E  = Expansion (condensed, narrow, ...
DD = Design size


Victor.