Is there any harm done if I use a hyphen in a font name?
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Chris Lozos
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Will it break anything if I do?
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I have loads of fonts with hyphens in their names, so I guess the answer is "No."0
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I named my one font "DigitaltS-Lime" and found that some programs (for example Scribus) treat part after hyphen as a style name ("Lime").
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A hyphen has a specific meaning within a font's PostScript name ID, so having a hyphen elsewhere in the name can be a problem: you'd have to omit it from the PS name, and could end up with that name being displayed in some situations, as 'gluk' noted.2
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Gluk, how did it work withe InD or Illustrator?0
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Chris Lozos said:Gluk, how did it work withe InD or Illustrator?
But with failback one color glyphs should work in both programs.
Font with free OFLicense is available here: DigitaltS-fruits
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gluk said:I named my one font "DigitaltS-Lime" and found that some programs (for example Scribus) treat part after hyphen as a style name ("Lime").
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Erwin Denissen said:It looks like a problem in your font, [...]
As far as I know only some programs use SubFamily name.
I show it as example for some harm, is someone use hyphen in font name
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Thanks, everyone!
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