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Font Family Naming conventions
Dave Crossland
2012-09-18 01:38:26 UTC
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Hi!

Does anyone have any resources to recommend on font family naming
conventions? :-)
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Cheers
Dave
Victor Gaultney
2012-09-18 21:12:32 UTC
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Post by Dave Crossland
Does anyone have any resources to recommend on font family naming
conventions? :-)
Adam T's thorough recommendations are here:

http://forum.fontlab.com/index.php?topic=313.0

However careful and complex these may be, I've found the very best solution is to plan to produce families of no more than four variants - the standard Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. Any variance from that invites incompatibilities. That may be simplistic, but it works every time. Where I have more weights than that I group them into sets of four, then name the families differently, as in "Gentium Basic" and "Gentium Basic Book".

Victor

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