Names for children inspired by fonts
Dan Hon has a cracking piece on children’s names inspired by fonts on his new blog. Some of them made me laugh out loud:
- Copperplate (boyâs name, ginger hair)
- Comic Sans MS (only if youâre an eccentric celebrity)
- Monaco (probably already being used by Victoria Beckham or Madonna)
- Rockwell (cowboy)
- Schoolhouse Cursive B (exception that quite irritatingly does something to the rule)
- SimSun (possibly something that would inadvertently either please or dishonour my parents)
- Snell Roundhand (old money again)
- Trebuchet (military family)
- Wide Latin (mean mother making a comment about how her daughter should lose some weight)
- Tahoma (surname probably Phoenix)
- Mistral (girlâs name)
- Marker Felt (never going to work as a teacher)
- Lucida Sans (quite posh girl)
- Wingdings (see earlier comment about my parents, or possibly suitable for a chicken farmerâs son)
It had me searching through the Fonts palette to find a few more. Plantagenet Cherokee (rugged yet sensitive) seems like quite a good name for the hero of a novel, and in honour of the rather dubious name for the new Intel Apple laptops, how about LiHei Pro?
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Garamond: lovely font, passable name.----- In my class at school were:
Arial (Parents fans of The Tempest)
Alibi (Scion of a south London gang)
Absalom (Trainee Rabbi)
Bookman Old Style (School swat, with a tweed jacket, and smoking a pipe)
Felix Titling (Graphical cat)
Georgia (On my mind)
GungSuh (Daughter of Gung Ho)
GungSuhChe (Brother of GungSuh)
Lucida Console (Prototypical counsellor)
Perpetua (Always hanging around)
Verdana (Girl with green fingers)
by Jonathan Briggs @ 04/02/2006 1:03 pm • Permalink •
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Genius!
Wow...oddly enough, looking through the options in MS Word...a lot of the fonts are people's names - Vivaldi, Tristan...it's been a long time since I browsed for fonts...who is 'Poor Richard' and why does he have a font named after him?
My favourite is 'Estrangelo Edessa', who is probably an Eastern European Private eye.
by Stuart @ 04/02/2006 6:02 pm • Permalink •
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Someday I'm going to write a story about the sassy! adventures of Helvetica Black, Soul Sister Typesetter.
by Andrew Willett @ 06/02/2006 5:03 am • Permalink •
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Milan: It's quite a distinguished name.
Jonathon Briggs: Hehe
Sister Perpetua would be a great name for a nun.
Stuart: Estrangelo Edessa - never heard of that one before, but it's excellent.
Andrew Willett: :-D I can hear her theme tune of 'Lady Marmalade' by LaBelle right now.
by bsag @ 06/02/2006 7:03 pm • Permalink •
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Re: Tahoma (surname probably Phoenix)- more likely Seattle or Redmond, not Phoenix. Tahoma was designed for Microsoft and is named after Tahoma, the Native American name for what we white interlopers call Mt.Rainier, a dormant volcano 70 miles south of Seattle. At 14,400' , nearly 4,400 meters, it's the highest in the US outside of Alaska. So maybe just Bill.
by John @ 17/02/2006 4:03 am • Permalink •
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hehehe ya i was wondering what estrangelo edessa meant.. if u noe plz tell me.. so ya.. thanx.. o and go on my guestbook on my site and sign it
[alanaandshirley.piczo.com]
by alana @ 21/02/2006 3:03 pm • Permalink •
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That sounds like a good idea, but i doubt my wife would go for it.
by Alaska @ 30/08/2007 2:43 pm • Permalink •
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sounds great:)
by madonna @ 02/04/2008 1:47 pm • Permalink •
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