> On a side note: Has anyone here ever named and released a font only to discover that name in use by another font?

yeah, me. one of my fonts is called Hybrid. after it’s release i’ve seen at least 2 other fonts that carry the same name.
none of them were licensed by a big foundry though, so i didn’t get into any legal bull … yet.

simon

> does anyone foresee a phone call

Phone call?! More like a gestapo attack.

hhp

I would have to agree.

Its still safer than a “c3po” font might be.
Lucas is NOTORIOUS for pursuing copyright offenders.

I remember in highschool I had a friend who registered www.ilovestarwars.com, not long after getting the site up and running — which in that time era a website was pratically foriegn to most — they slapped him with a cease and desist.



hildebrant.

I’d disagree. You can use the names for fonts
(Drysdale, etc.) provided no existing trademark
exists in a similar trade channel. However, you can’t
use “Beverly Hillbillies” Font Pak or something because
BH is a registered trademark in various classes
and they’d get you for diluting the mark.



bj

Tom, btw, curious to see the typefaces.

I second what BJ said. “Beverly Hillbillies” is a trademark, so using that might be a problem. But the names of characters on the show are not trademarked; additionally, they are generic, common surnames.

Besides, look how many unrelated movies and TV shows have the same titles.

Paul

BJ, Paul: I tend to agree. They will not be marketed as the “Beverly Hillbillies Font Pak”. In fact, I doubt they will be packaged together at all.

I will post the fonts soon (hopefully) in the Critique section. Clampett, Bodine and Hathaway are relatively complete. Drysdale is giving me fits. Here is a sample:

Thanks Tom and good luck.

I really like Drysdale. The lc d is daring
and the uc D, did you draw with a mouse*?

bj

» and the uc D, did you draw with a mouse*?

I just realized that people who interract via email
would not be able to see that the D is very
Disneyesque, thus the mouse reference. :P

Haha…I got the first reference! A friend already pointed that out to me. Let’s just say it’s Disneyesque

> You can use the names for fonts

Legally, there are a lot of variables, yes. But it’s doesn’t matter: the gestapo will still make your life miserable.

BTW, I like Drysdale.

hhp

Drysdale’s my favourite of the bunch, too.

Paul

Drysdale is very cool.

Looks very 50s, like something you’d see on Boutique or Hair Salon adverts.

The D is very Disneyish though, I’d say to make an alternate version of it at the least because Disney does not like anything even remotely connected with anything they own.