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Typeface Naming Conflict

msmiths

I just received a notification today from a type designer / foundry that one of our recent releases has the same name as a previous release from said designer / foundry. They are asking me to change the name of our release to avoid confusion.

I’m not opposed to changing the name by any means and feel somewhat neutral towards this conflict at this point.

It seems that conflicts would happen somewhat frequently and I know that in other industries there are product naming overlaps as well.

Does anyone have any experience with this issue, I imagine some people have ran into this issue and have dealt with a variety of situations that are similar.

Thanks for your feedback.

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David Rault

could you name and maybe give a link to the examples you are citing here?

dr

msmiths

David, well the font(s) in question are titled ’Verse’, completely different fonts with the same name. Completely different foundries and styles. If you contact me I’ll forward you the links but I don’t want to post and reveal who I was contacted by just for reasons. Thanks for your response.

Dav (formlos)

If we are ’talking’ about a German type designer here, please note that his typefaces released as ’Verse’ are actually named ’VerseSans’ and ’VerseSerif’, as it seems? (Oh, And, Then there is ’Versa’ and ’Verso’, as well. ;)

Dav

Dav (formlos)

Other naming suggestions: ’Verze’, ’Mechanickel’, ’ExtraBolt’, ’Hexagone’, ’Technik’. ;)

Dav

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