Where do all the fonts get their names from?
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It’s a little unclear what you mean, especially as you normally don’t name fonts, but rather typefaces and within each typeface normally there are many fonts. Whoever created (or ordered) the typeface gets to name it. Some are named after their predecessors, the “fonts” which were made long before computers, in the dawn of movable type, and in some cases even long before that. Some are named after their creators, like Gill Sans named after Eric Gill. On top of that often comes descriptive qualifiers, like bold, narrow, condensed, italic, and many others, to describe the style of each individual font in the typeface.
It’s kind of like having a child, you choose what you name it. For instance a font I made years and years ago I based off the letters on the Nintendo Entertainment System gamepad, I called that font Nentindo Consolic.
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