Mark Simonson · Type designer

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• Re: How can small designers' fonts ever sell successfully?

  Mark Simonson

  April 2020
  To put that into perspective, though, only about 155 are any good (see Sturgeon's Law), so maybe not quite as bad as it sounds. :)
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• Re: The Future of Font Naming: is it still unethical to use the same font name?

  Mark Simonson

  March 2020
  A hard-to-pronounce name never stopped a font from getting popular.
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• Re: The Future of Font Naming: is it still unethical to use the same font name?

  Mark Simonson

  March 2020
  Note that titles (of songs, books, movies, etc.) are not protected by copyright or trademark (in the U.S., at least), whereas font names can be trademarked. Also, since things with titles are (as far…
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• Re: The Future of Font Naming: is it still unethical to use the same font name?

  Mark Simonson

  March 2020
  (@"Christian Thalmann" I think you meant that question for John.)
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• Re: The Future of Font Naming: is it still unethical to use the same font name?

  Mark Simonson

  March 2020
  Pretty much every time I've found that the name I wanted to use was already in use, I've ended up coming up with a better name.
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