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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Font names
Message-ID: <3331@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 14 Apr 88 07:36:14 GMT
References: <3174@gryphon.CTS.COM> <3219@gryphon.CTS.COM> <673@nunki.usc.edu>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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Summary: well, isn't this the $64K question ?

In article <673@nunki.usc.edu> rjung@sal1.usc.edu (Robert Jung) writes:
>
>  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?
>
>

Aint it the truth, aint it the truth ?

If you design your own font, you get to invent a name and can trade
mark it, like Chuck Bigelow did with "Lucida" (tm).

*Everyone* knows names like "Times Roman" and "Helvetica" are trademarked.

The ones I have questions about are some of the more odd ball ones: Bocklin,
Hobo, Broadway, Bobo.

I would KILL for a canonical list of font names and trade marks; the
best i have been able to do so far is acumulate a bunch of books
with lots of illustrations of lots of fonts; this tells me approximately
what the name is. Who owns that name is often a difficult question
to answer however.

According to my sister in law, the budding attorney, a trademark
search is beyond the reach of non-lawers to do, and is expensive
and tedious. Great.

Are there really no easy answers to this one ?

I mean really, Chicago ? Does apple own the name ??

Can *I* use it ?


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