Maybe They Were Thinking "Little Mermaid"

I voted Helvetica, though it's more likely I will one day be calling a type face after one of my (yet to be born... or made, for that matter) children.

I'm seriously considering "Hank Extended."

Comic Sans

I always though helvetica would be a pretty girl's name. Geneva sounds nice, too, now that I think of it.

Fluted Serif? Come on...

ive always thought helvetica was a perfect name for a cat.

think about it.

"here helvetica! here kitty-kitty! helvetica!"

and variations would work very well for multiple cats, like helvetica black, bold, light, etc.

> “If you were going to name your child
> after a font which one would it be?”

The one that looks like a font.

hhp

Jeez, are we only talking about system fonts here? C'mon!

If it's a boy: Lord Haw Haw

If it's a girl: Banshee

If it's androgenous: Shithouse

Optima gets my vote.

I´m seriously thinking in House-A-Rama Kingpin :-)

Weren't Joanna & Perpetua named after Gill's daughters?

That strikes me as a better approach – design a typeface and name it after your child...

Venus, Gill, Aldus, Poliphilus, Dante, etc, but these are obviously Children named after Fonts named after People. hmm.

Candida. Diotima. Electra. Futura. but these owe their meaning to latin words.

Castrated boy: Berlin Sans
Fat girl: Fette Fraktur
Has acne: Clearface
Small boy: Lo-Type

and seriously, it becomes more difficult when you want to name your kid after a typeface you really like.

And of course, if I should ever steal a kid and make it my own, i shall name her Segoe.

My son is Quay...

----Jacques

I've seriously tried to talk my wife into Pilcrow as a middle name for years. Next kid :D

I didn't name my daughter after a font, but it occurred to me that there has to be a font with her name, and there is.

Linotype Iris

It's rather spindly, though. Now, gotta go--Linotype just woke up. (Sorry.)

Hmm, I would, maybe, name my little girl Zoë 'Dalliance', if I had one.. :) And she would be 'Splendid' and beautiful, for sure..

Well there's no chance that I'm ever going to have children, so I have surrogate children in the form of my two cats, who, as it happens, are both named after typefaces for real:

"Mrs Eaves" (masseuse) and "Columbus" (masseuree?)

It's a bit of a coincidence, but my son's name is Cooper. And of course, when I made a small site for him, what font did I use? Cooper Black of course.

Toby, I like your thought...
Please don't forget P. Scott Makela’s Carmella.
A beautiful daughter with a namesake typeface.

Also Peter Matthias Noordzij's Caecilia after
his wife, Marie-Cécile Noordzij-Pulles.

It's arguably more interesting to turn this around somewhat.

A co-worker's daughter is named Lydia, and she was quite thrilled when I sent her a sample of Warren Chappell's typeface Lydian (which was named for his wife Lydia).

And of course there's Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse's Christiana named for their son Christian.

William

Doesn't Helvetica sound like it has something to do with the devil? I thought Helvetin was finnish for hell, might be wrong though. To be sure, you'd might to want to pick something else...

Confoederatio Helvetica is the Latin name for Switzerland.

I have a cat named Pica, but I was unable to convince my wife to name our daughter after anything design-related. Someone please design a typeface and name it after Amelia, if you wouldn't mind. :)

I've always wanted to create a typeface named after my sister, Cynthia. I always thought that sounded like a nice name for an elegant text font. Someday soon I hope to be ready to tackle a project like that.

Maybe I'll get sufficiently inspired if I make it to typecon 2004.

How's this for an unforgettable name:

Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk

jeff: i hope your daughter Amelia is a robot. otherwise the typeface may not be appropriate for her.

Our new princess (HollanD) is called Amalia...

Explains a lot

Our new princess (HollanD) is called Amalia...

Explains a lot.

---Jacques

But she's no robot. More... botanical?
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/sherwood/p22-amelia/p22-amelia/testdrive.html?s=HASHEESH&p=60

hhp

A girl: Myriad. She could be even Pro in the future ;)
A boy: Raavi

Hrant - The code is provided here to make real live links. Why not use it?

Well, I was thinking that the distribution of effort (from me to readers) makes sense because only people who are really interested in the link would bother to copy-paste it into the browser, and I wouldn't be wasting effort on people who aren't really interested.

But you know what? For you, I'll start doing it.

hhp

hrant, we're definitely thinking of different Amelias.

What was the name of that vomit-themed font? The one where each letter was created out of an image of somebody puking?

Made for my kids....

-- Pete

My daughter's name is "Arielle."

Not intentionally named after Arial. ;)

I always like the fact that Ed Benguiat had designed a typeface and named it after me. Heeehheeeee! And my brothers name is Mason so he has a typeface named for him as well, I mean not named for him ... ah, you know what I mean.

Boy: Bremen or Hamilton
Girl: Narcissus or Tasse

Futura, of course. Unless it's a boy, in which case Futuro.

When I was in design school the chair of my department, William Bevington, named his daughter Perpetua. I'm not sure if it was after the typeface or after Gill's daughter (as someone mentioned above). Or so it is told.

Sadly, I'm sure most people would name their boy or girl "Times New Roman," because that's the only typeface they seem to know.

For the record, the name of Gill’s font Perpetua came from the title of the text used for its first showing: The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity. As far as I know, Gill did not have a daughter with that name.

Joanna, on the other hand, was indeed named for Gill’s youngest daughter, Joan (who married René Hague, Gill’s printing partner).

— K.