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From: rjung@sal1.usc.edu (Robert Jung)
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Subject: Font names
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Date: 8 Apr 88 16:31:13 GMT
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  Since this is the font discussion, here's a font question I've been wanting
to get answered:

  How does one determine the "name" of a font? Or, to give the question more
specificity(?), why is the "San Francisco" font on the Macintosh called
"San Francisco? Why is the "Swiss" font on GEM called "Swiss"? Why is there
a font called "Hershy"?????

  I presume that the naming of fonts after geographical locations and/or
chocolate bars is relatively arbitrary...But I could be wrong. Can anyone
enlighten me on the mystical way of naming a font?


						--R.J.
						B-)

P.S. "Times Roman" I can understand, but "Geneva"? "Dutch"? Whatever happened
to "block shadowed", "skewered", or "computer"?

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