Cape-Arcona Releases New Typefaces

Its nice but the name Stardust was used by me for a T26 font, How does it work in registerin names for fonts? I know its difficult to check names...

Alejandro,

I think it's pretty much on the honor system. You might just want to email them... they had a font called Dr. No which was also a Fuse font; they eventually changed it to No Dr.. Good luck!

Yeah... nice place, nice fonts! Even if I don't find many of the fonts useful besides the "display-arena"... btw my first font "Global" (originally released by T-26) was named so, without the knowledge that GarageFont already had one with the same name. When switching from T-26 to GarageFont I simply had to rename it "New Global". As mentioned by John B, it's mostly a matter of honour.

Soon after Stefan's thing went down House Industries released their own "Global" which was changed to "Bullet" once they wised up.

An Idea adressing the first few comments:

The problem of duplicate font names is something I have come across before. What would be nice is if somone had some free time to start online searchable database, almost a "register.com" of the font world. There people could stake claim, or register font names.

If I had more time it would be something I would be intersted in putting together.

Just an idea :)

hildebrant.

This idea was started a while back with the Goudy Center.

...and as for font naming... be assured that the P22 prefix in our font names is for more than simply branding purposes.

I like the what's new on this part of the website, quite funny in some ways, very sad in another:
http://www.rit.edu/~goudyctr/new.html

I don’t think the Goudy Center’s project is entirely dead. Font Bureau still checks and registers their names with them, I’m pretty sure. But the less people use the service, the more out of date the database becomes and the less useful.

I think it would be a great idea for an organization like ATypI to explore taking over the project from RIT and injecting new life into it. The Goudy database would make for a good starting basis.

The issue of font names may be mostly a matter of honor, but there is of course trademarking in most jurisdictions. (U.S. info at www.uspto.gov.) Unfortunately, the registration process is cumbersome and bureaucratic, not to mention expensive, which makes it unrealistic for most individuals and small shops.

— K.

The best strategy is to invent a word.

Matthew Carter has suggested the formula: "three syllables, ending in a" as being appropriate for typefaces (Verdana, etc). I've used this technique once or twice and have been pleased with the results. However, everyone should try and come up with their own system of neology.

I agree with all but shudder at the thought of what would happen should Hildebrant's registration idea come to fruition: squatters would claim names they had no intention of using. this would be especially bad if the "service" was free. (If one wants to squat a domain name, it costs $ to do so.)
Jean François, comme vous avez dit, le site du RIT est drôle et triste au même temps.

Best,
c

Maybe there is a way to set it up without cost to the registering foundries.

For instance, if the database became something to the general effect of Identifont. Not really, but what I mean is that when you register your font name, you have to have a graphic sample submitted with it. This might put a stop to placeholding.

At the same time, it could become a more robust database. When searching a name it would pull up Date Registered, Registering Foundry, and the stadardized graphic display of the typeface.

All in all, this could easily become more of a beast of a project than it already is. I have to admire Hildebrant for even considering taking on this monster. I mean, how would one go about cataloging decades of digital type designs...? (other than very slowly and meticulously)

AOETI

Our font is called CA Stardust and displayed like that in the menues.... I think there should be no problems. But if the problem is, that you are so proud of a name that you don´t want anyone else to use a similar one, that´s a different case. I don´t stick to the name really... It could be Stardustia or Dustaria or Arastudia or Adurastia or whatever. Funny game. But back to the question: Is it enough to put a prefix like CA in front of a fontname to evite problems? We hoped it would be so.