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From: Richard Sexton
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1988 23:01

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The question was raised earlier as to where font's names come from and
the universal answer (from both posters) was the creator gets to
name them.

Ok, fine, good thing to know next time i create a font from scratch.

A more pragmatic question is which of the common names are trademarked
and which are PD:

Cooper ? Bocklin ? Peignot ? Times ? Tymes ? Bookman ?
Schoolbook ? Star ? Mete ? Bodoni ? Toronto ? Chicago ?

Oh, I have lots of other ones, perhaps a more appropriate
question would be is there some big book of trademarked font
names ?

My sister in law the budding attorney told me it wold cost me
a fortune to do a trademark search for each name. Yuck. I dont
want to hear that.

Or is this wht apple calles its fonts after cities (Geneva, Toronto, 
etc.) and Commodore-Amiga names it's fots after gemstones (Topaz,
Garnet, Sapphire etc.)

Whats a guy to do ?


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richard@gryphon.CTS.COM                          rutgers!marque!gryphon!richard

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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
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Subject: font names
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Date: 20 Apr 88 23:01:14 GMT
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