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- From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
- Subject: Re: Changing Postscript font names?
- Message-ID: <jcmorris.715439895@mwunix>
- Keywords: Postscript, ATM, font
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- References: <1992Sep1.222400.125@lth.se>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:18:15 GMT
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- d89os@efd.lth.se (Ola Sigurdson) writes:
-
- > I recently got CorelDraw 3.0 with a lot of Postscript type 1 fonts
- >(on CD). They work fine, but for copyright reasons they have funny
- >names, like "Switzerland" instead of "Helvetica".
-
- "Helvetica" is a trademarked name. US Copyright law does not allow a
- typeface to be protected, but does allow a vendor to protect the name
- under which the typeface is marketed. Thus "Helvetica", "Helv", "Swiss",
- "Switzerland", "Arial", and God knows how many more sans-serif knockoffs
- of the old Grotesk typeface family are all the same letterforms.
-
- Similarly, "Times Roman" is a copyrighted name, so we have "TmsRmn",
- "Times", "Times New Roman" and so on usually represent identical
- letterforms.
-
- I strongly suspect that every font vendor has an employee whose sole
- duty is to think up names for fonts which sound similar to the commonly-
- used but trademarked names...and the sillier the better. From the
- Corel package, for example, one finds:
-
- Corel Equivalent
- ----- ----------
- New Order New Yorker
- Ottowa Optima
- Palm Springs Palatino
- Penguin Peingot
- Posse Ponderosa
- Technical Tekton
- Fujiyama Futura
-
- ...and so on, _ad_nausiam_. You get the idea.
-
- Joe Morris / MITRE
-