Hello everybody,
I'm working on an anniversary edition of one of my old fonts. The new version includes some optimization, new glyphs, but overall, additionally to Latin alphabet, Cyrillic and Greek alphabet I added Arabic.
The font is already published on Myfonts since 2013, but my intention is the rename the font adding a word like Neue, New, Next, but none of these convince me.
At the moment the idea that convinces me the most, being the tenth anniversary version, is adding trivially 2024 to the name.
Any suggestions?
Best.
L.
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I took a look at the name, which is "Grösser", the comparative of "groß", which means "big".
Adobe literally added the version number to the family name. The family name was formerly “Minion” for the original version, “Minion Pro” for version 2 (the first OpenType version), and is now “Minion 3.” This is different than just keeping the existing name and incrementing the internal font version number to 3.0.
I like when typefaces have names, like a living person, and not version numbers like a piece of software. But fonts are software, so I suppose there are arguments in both directions. Up until today I just thought of Minion 3 as simply more Minion.
However, it also has a different name so it can coexist with the previous generation. Both can be installed and neither will overwrite the other.
It's a good solution, or simply a 10 in superscript ¹⁰
I think part of Apple's success is having a small line of products with each piece being presented as an artifact, or better to say "phenomenon". It has some tech-mythological vibe compared to "LG X15 e12 4000s".
Each generation having one figure integer next to it somehow emphasizes this effect
As you have added Arabic, perhaps some indication of that, if all the scripts are in one font with no individual script versions. So, the suffix PEA (Pan-European and Arabic)?
You could also call it "Jetzt"