Why do font makers use such strange titles?

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@Asylum (47893)

Manchester, England

February 13, 2016 9:50am CST

Most operating systems are installed with a decent selection of fonts, which tend to be adequate for most eventualities. Of course there are many times when a different font can prove useful, especially in the case of using them in images. Over the years I have amassed a fair selection of fonts for use in specific tasks, such as Christmas fonts or decorative fonts. Installing all of them is not a practical approach because the more fonts that the system has and the slower some programs will load. This is due to them having to read all the fonts before fully launching. All my downloaded fonts are stored in an archived folder, making them available for install whenever they are require. Of course this means finding a particular one before installing it, which can be difficult. It would help if the creators used appropriate names for them, whereas some are quite obscure or unrelated. I know that I have an appropriate font for Valentine’s Day, but have spent the last hour trying to find it. I can open and view a font simply by double clicking it, but with 309 fonts in a folder this is laborious. I think that I should try sub foldering them at some stage.

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@jaboUK (64346)

• United Kingdom

13 Feb 16

309 different fonts? Crikey I didn't know that there were that many.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

13 Feb 16

There are tens of thousands available free online, but I just collect the ones that may prove useful at some time.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

13 Feb 16

@jaboUK I do tend to create a lot of images with added text, so it helps having a variety of fonts so that I can use an appropriate one.

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@jaboUK (64346)

• United Kingdom

13 Feb 16

@Asylum Really - that many? I just stick to the one.

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@Dalane (691)

• United States

13 Feb 16

I rarely use more than a few different fonts. Some of the selections are hard to read.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

13 Feb 16

Yes, there are some rather strange and useless provided by operating systems and programs.

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@Marcyaz (35316)

• United States

13 Feb 16

I only have a few that I use so I have no use for as many as you have.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

13 Feb 16

Some of them are only used on rare occasions, but it justifies storing them.

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@LadyDuck (502343)

• Italy

13 Feb 16

I remember that I had installed a great font viewer on my old Windows XP. Have a look at those two fonts their names are Fiolex Girl and NewlyWed, may be you have the same.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

13 Feb 16

Fiolex girl was the one that I was hunting for, which I managed to find about 30 minutes ago.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

13 Feb 16

@LadyDuck That is no problem Anna, I found what I wanted anyway.

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@LadyDuck (502343)

• Italy

13 Feb 16

@Asylum I am sorry I was of no help. If I only had seen your discussion before.

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@TheHorse (238297)

• Walnut Creek, California

13 Feb 16

I'm lazy. I use the same font in all of my documents.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

13 Feb 16

I do a lot more than basic documents and create images, greetings cards and many other items.

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@Morleyhunt (21741)

• Canada

13 Feb 16

That is how I find most thing...time consuming...searching. I had almost that many on my old desktop computer.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

13 Feb 16

I would never installing them all, but store then ready to be installed when required. After using a specific font I would usually uninstall it again.

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Just an Ordinary Owl?

@owlwings (43897)

• Cambridge, England

13 Feb 16

I use something called Nexusfont which allows you to categorise fonts and to load and unload the fonts you want to use as required.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

13 Feb 16

That sounds interesting and I may look at that soon. Otherwise I may end up having to sort them into folders at some time.

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Patsie Hatley is Deceased

@Hatley (163772)

• Garden Grove, California

13 Feb 16

yes a sub folder might help to speed things up a bit.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

13 Feb 16

I have done this for the collection of clipart that I have collected over the years, so it may be my best bet.

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@celticeagle (189838)

• Boise, Idaho

14 Feb 16

Appropriate to whom? Names can be liked by everyone. I find some of the titles rather interesting. Out of 309 names of fonts and you can't find one you like?

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

14 Feb 16

There is an appropriate font for any occasion among my collection, but that was not my problem. The problem was identifying which font was which, since the names do not always provide a clue. Anna found the font that I was trying to identify, which is Fiolex Girls and she displayed it alongside her comment. I had actually found it prior to her posting her comment, but as you can see the name is not really indicative of the font itself.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

14 Feb 16

@celticeagle One thing that I have never considered is font making.

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@celticeagle (189838)

• Boise, Idaho

14 Feb 16

@Asylum ....You should do some of your own.

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@allknowing (153544)

• India

14 Feb 16

Why did you have the need to download fonts. If you want to see what you have just go to Paint or word . There are loads.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

14 Feb 16

It is easy to read the fonts that are installed, but not so easy for the ones that are stored elsewhere. I have a large selection that I keep for specific use and only install when they are required, which caused me to have difficulties locating which font I was looking for.

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@Fleura (34960)

• United Kingdom

14 Feb 16

I have no idea how the creators come up with the names, and I rarely use many different ones. Now you will have to tell me how you define a font that is 'appropriate for Valentine's day'!

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

14 Feb 16

The one that I was trying to locate is the one that Anna has displayed in her comment, which is Fiolex Girls. As you can see it is an excellent choice for Valentines Day and quite appropriate.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

14 Feb 16

@Fleura Precisely, it was written in Fiolex Girls font by Anna. By setting the font to red it becomes ideal for use as Valentine text.

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@Fleura (34960)

• United Kingdom

14 Feb 16

@Asylum You mean it looks a bit like hand writing and it has hearts all over it?

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@JudyEv (381952)

• Rockingham, Australia

14 Feb 16

Having sub-folders sounds like a very good idea if you have 309 fonts to choose from.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

14 Feb 16

It would seem to be the only option under the circumstances, but it will be a laborious job since I will have to open a great number of them to decide which category they belong to.

@fishtiger58 (29819)

• Momence, Illinois

14 Feb 16

That's a lot of fonts. Some of them are so fancy I can't even read them.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

14 Feb 16

There are some fonts that can be difficult to decipher. In some cases it can even depend on which letters are used.

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@Ladypeace (2028)

• Singapore

13 Feb 16

I didn't image additional fonts to be that tedious to retrieve only after I've read this. Lucky I'm not in need of any fancy fonts.

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@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

13 Feb 16

They are relatively easy to acquire, but they carry such nondescript names that they are often difficult to identify. This is why I created an image with three fonts and their names to demonstrate this.

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