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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Font names
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Date: 9 Apr 88 16:36:15 GMT
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|  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?

Fonts are created by people. Therefore the creator gets to name it. Or
the company who hired the artist. Some names are intended to give the
impression of being related to a well-known font without infringing on
the trademarked name. Swiss, for example. Think about it. Hershey is
named after the person who digitized the data, Dr. Hershey.

	Ken