No, I am Not Planning to Name My Child After a Font, but...

Dante and Berkeley come to mind.

Seems an odd question, since many, many of the typefaces I use on a daily basis are named after the typographers who originated them...

I guess I'm talking about names that aren't standard names for people, i.e. not Dave Gothic, but could be names for people.

Arial. Cooper. Asswipe.

it's crass. you like it. :)

...kinda how I think Chlamydia would be a lovely name for a girl.

I like Arial, Geneva too. Coopers nice except for that damn expedia.com commercial

Stating the obvious: people need absolutely no encouragement in choosing idiotic names for their children.

FWIW, there used to be a DJ at one of the local radio stations who went by the moniker "Dom Casual" . . . but that was several years ago and, AFAIK, he hasn't worked in the business for some time. I dunno if there's a moral in there somewhere; my advice is to just stay away from font names.

i object. i'd pay big money to see a drag queen named "Snell Roundhand." you know she'd be nasty as all get out.

Now that you've gone there, then how long before you pay good money to see entertainers who've co-opted Fountain's names Mothafucka and Doggy Style?

Tibor Kalman named one of his kid, Bodoni.

I like Garamond.

Aldus. After the Aldus Buchschrift by ol' Hermann, after the great Aldus Manutius of Venice, late 1400s.

Here the name of a person has lent name to a typeface, and backa again :)

Same about Poliphilus, Mrs. Eaves (thought that may just not be a cool first name), Dante, Arrighi, etc pp. Lots of revivals have references in the names to the people that made them or to the people that the books the typefaces were made for were about.

Caecilia, for a newer face.

Well of course there's good ol' Joanna by Eric Gill. I suppose that's a bit obvious though.

How about typographic terms? I think Pica would be a great name for someone.

Now you've gone and done it. I have to make a "What is your porn font name website"!

"Mabella"... I designed this font for my italian girlfriend...

Aaahhh - looks like Mr. "Dom Casual" has not gone away... he is now being inflicted on us here in Austin. http://www.1077ktnd.com

Wow. Several years ago I recall "Dom" saying that he was getting out of the broadcast business. Apparently now he's back, and at the Austin counterpart to SLC's KENZ 107.5 The End (the station he last worked for). I guess you can't keep a good font name down.

If I'm not mistaken, Dan Savage (alt-weekly sex columnist and This American Life contributor) used to perform in drag under the name Helvetica Bold.

There's a long and very ugly list of font names you could name your children.

Imagine yourself in fourth grade, wouldn't you be one of the kids who beat up Univers Light Ultracondensed?

See No. 1 of the Top 11 Signs You’re Becoming a Geek.

That's pretty funny, Mr. Coles.....wonder if they got that from here...

I've often ver seriously tried to convince my wife Pilcrow is a really cool middle name. Maybe the next boy :D

> people need absolutely no encouragement
> in choosing idiotic names for their children.

So true...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3268161.stm

hhp

I like Lucida for a girl's name.

And there's always Rose Wood =D

I would name my kid "Gridnik". If it's a girl, I'd name her FF Unit.

“Poor Richard” comes to mind...

Verdana and Felix are real cool names, dude!

Let me introduce you to my kids: Usherwood, Ferox and Din...

...not as bad as Apple (who'd have thought that Gwyneth was a mac geek)

Or a Grail geek.

hhp

I'd be pretty pissed off if my parents named me Giddyup, Hobo, or Mrs. Eaves.

I think Mrs. Eaves would be quite a cool name for a cat.

I'd prefer Verdana for gal name as well

"Hello, I'd like you to meet my child, Akzidenz Grotesk Burgheimer."

How long before some poor kid gets called Fat Face?

Harry Obese Squeezed

Kevin: Heh, "Lucida Grande" was actually suggested as a baby name on one forum, thus getting a mention on Baby's Named a Bad, Bad Thing-- specifically on page 14

Clarendon if it's a girl (Clare for short)

Serif if it's a boy (then when my husband and I get a babysitter and go out we can say we're sans serif)

If we'd had children together...
Ottomat and Filosophia.
Our pet schnauzer: Bembo

I'd name my daughter Perpetua if it didn't alliterate.

> I’d name my daughter Perpetua...

She would NOT thank you for that.

message to Gahlord Dewald - there actually is someone named Pica!!
It has never done me any harm.

Pica is Icelandic for the female genitalia, btw.