Typophile - Type-inspired baby names? - Comments

^ Same in English. I

jupiterboy — Tue, 3 Jun 2008 06:23:15 -0700

^ Same in English. I wondered about that, but maybe the last name was Oscopy? Who knew?

David: Colon is not good. In

Ale Paul — Tue, 3 Jun 2008 06:17:36 -0700

David:
Colon is not good. In spanish Colon is the last section of digestive system and its the Columbus name too. So, bad in both ways. LOL.

Call it Open type so you could nickname him “hey, O.T., wake up!”

Pearl or Ruby, if

dtw — Tue, 3 Jun 2008 06:02:22 -0700

Pearl or Ruby, if small.
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Trajan would be a cool

BeeBrains — Tue, 3 Jun 2008 00:06:33 -0700

Trajan would be a cool boy’s name. What about Ampersand? :D I’d like to see a bully come up with a good name-rhyme tease for that! Maybe if you went ala Prince and spelled it ‘&’.

I agree with ilovecolors,

bobfet1 — Mon, 2 Jun 2008 17:40:24 -0700

I agree with ilovecolors, Meta would be a pretty sweet name.

Eureka Absara Morgan Stella R

rubenDmarkes — Mon, 2 Jun 2008 16:17:14 -0700

Eureka
Absara
Morgan
Stella
Rongel
Merlo
Renard
Fedra
Charlotte

Sorry. I’ll stop, now. :P

Geez. Odwak? :P Well, I

rubenDmarkes — Mon, 2 Jun 2008 16:05:23 -0700

Geez. Odwak? :P

Well, I really liked “Quaint”, actually. So if they’re not afraid of having an eccentric kid (not only that, I guess they’d have to be really confident), Quaint Odwak actually sounds really good to me. I like eccentric. And it also seems to make sense! A quaint is something “attractively unusual” (according to askoxford.com) – appart from the typographic meaning, of course –, and then you’ve got “odd” and “wack” or “whack”… I think it’s a cool name to have! Although it probably wouldn’t fit a girl very well.
And it has unusual letters, too… a name with a Q, a W and a K? That’s sweet! But of course, this kid’s going to have to live with that name, I don’t know how that would be… :P

I’m also a big Seinfeld fan, and the George character wanted to name his kid Seven. Seven Odwak doesn’t sound that bad to me. Nice for a girl! :P

How about Bell(e) Odwak? Trinité Odwak? Tilde is like Tilda Swinton, the actress, so it’s less “different” if they’re not into something too weird… I like Zuzana, too. I think Odwak isn’t hard to pair with other names.

Guess we could go on forever… how about getting them here and we’ll all brainstorm together?! :P I think we’d all love to help choose a typographic name for a kid! :D

(Long S. Odwak? Nah, that’d just be cruel… :D)

VOLT would be a nice name if

satya — Mon, 2 Jun 2008 15:31:10 -0700

VOLT would be a nice name if your baby comes with some open type features. ;-).

Actually Ruben, that’s a

Jennifer — Mon, 2 Jun 2008 11:55:18 -0700

Actually Ruben, that’s a good idea .. so at the risk of shining a brighter light on them, the baby’s last name will be ’Odwak’, so what would you pair with it?

> a thread on type inspired

david hamuel — Mon, 2 Jun 2008 11:29:07 -0700

> a thread on type inspired porn star names
or something like...... :^)

Commercial Strip
Van Di[j]ck.
ITC Eros

I’m really glad no one has

sii — Mon, 2 Jun 2008 11:02:56 -0700

I’m really glad no one has started a thread on type inspired porn star names or font-related Star Wars names... ;-)

For a boy: Fertigo (he could

ilovecolors — Mon, 2 Jun 2008 10:26:32 -0700

For a boy:

Fertigo (he could have nicknames like Fer, Fertie)
Caslon
Basker (Caslon and Basker could be some two gangsters or so)
Benton (sort of Ben Ten..)

For a girl:
Meta (maybe Metanelle?)
Jannon (“hey Jan, wanna go to the prom with me?”)
Tyfa (cool for 3d movie)

For a girl - how

Rosi H — Mon, 2 Jun 2008 08:45:33 -0700

For a girl - how about
Lucida or Maiandra

For a boy - Viking or Monaco, Arno or Eyrie (very Hollywood sounding)

Gill sounds quite masculine too.... but Gill Sans could be a problem if the family was Mr and Mrs Balls.

Good game!

“Tympani ” I love

dberlow — Mon, 2 Jun 2008 07:49:44 -0700

“Tympani ” I love it!

Emma, Enna, Delta, Small Fry,
Colon, Branch, Gee-Gee, Sweet Pie.

Cheers!

You could tell us the

rubenDmarkes — Mon, 2 Jun 2008 05:06:53 -0700

You could tell us the surname so we could fit them better together (kerning-wise too).
I’ll try going through Bringhurst’s glossary of characters (some serious, some joking):

Cedilla (for a girl, perhaps)?
If the baby was redhead you could call him/her Dumb Caret (not sure it’s “^” or another one I’m missing)!
Or maybe Dumbquotes! :P
Dyet (“Đ”)? :P Dyet Coke!
Ethel (“œ”)!
Hedera (ivy leaf fleuron)!
Háček (caron, inverted circumflex like over the lc C) or Kroužek (ring), a nice pan-european feel to it…
Solidus (fraction bar)?
Well, not Sputnik…
Nor Swung Dash!

(Going through to the glossary of terms)
Well, not Bastarda!
Bitmap? :P The other day I was suggesting Pixel for a friend’s cat.
Well, certainly not Lettrine! xD
Quaint is kind of nice and original…

Well, then you’ve got names of designers and their typefaces… if they have any preferences, they could try and go with those. I really like Columbus, for example, designed by Patricia and David Saunders and Robin Nicholas. But I guess calling a kid Columbus would be a little too “cumbersome”.

Type-inspired baby names?

Jennifer — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:42:00 -0700

Here’s a semi-serious idea that actually could happen, depending ..

Two of my oldest friends are 5ish weeks away from having their first baby, and they’re nowhere near a sense of what to name the lil pup. They’re both designery and bookish, and quite like type. In fact, she’s sitting across from me and just exclaimed “Pica! We’ll name it Pica! Or .. Franklin!”

So, if you had to choose a type-inspired name for a baby, boy or girl, what would it be?

All the reasonable guidelines apply, for example nothing unpronounceable or humiliating. Like, not ’Slug’. :)

thanks!