I know this is silly but it made me laugh. It's a graphic of designers' dog names and I noticed that some were related to typography.
via swiss-miss.com
Typophile
Typographic Dog Names
What? No Pilcrow?
One day I will get a female Newfoundland and a male Pyrenees and name them Yin and Yang. But if they have a kid, what to name it?
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Notan.
Is Mutt too obvious? Em.... yes.
Naming pets after fonts would be nice, but the wife would never allow it, so I'm twisting it round and naming my next font after the cat.
I named my dog Typo.
Kern
Woff
Slab, for a dumb dog.
Simon: Mutton could work, for a mixed-breed. Or a Komondor.
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We bought a puppy April 2013 and named him Typo. My husband and I were typesetters and graphic artists years ago and we wanted a typographical name for a puppy.
Postscript and Truetype might work as dog names.
Don
Baskerville?
> a female Newfoundland and a male Pyrenees and name them Yin and Yang. But if they have a kid, what to name it?
Hranty
>>a female Newfoundland and a male Pyrenees and name them Yin and Yang.
>But if they have a kid, what to name it?
When Yin and Yang resolve there is .... Nirvana
Son
When Yin and Yang resolve there is .... Nirvana
Actually, there is Dao.
Or, if they’re not resolved, there is Taiji.
Ooops. I got ahead of myself in Eastern philosophy. I overshot and reached Nothing before stopping off at Dao and Taiji.
Don
Ohmmmy.
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For a dog with a nippy temperament, Interobang.
For a dog that twists around, Ampersand.
For a German shepherd, Fraktur.
For a dog that stays close to home, Kerning.
Don
Captured from web.archive.org on 26 Dec 2014. view this capture
Based on "handles" some persons used to cover their real identity: Apostrophe, Character. I can't recall the rest, but there were were quite a few during the wild west era at alt binaries fonts and elsewhere 15 or 20 years ago.
don