Help me name my blog, win Adobe prize
[sigh]
I need to come up with a name for a type blog to be hosted at work (Adobe). So it will be work-related. My idea is to post musings on the technical, business, historical and design aspects of type/fonts and type technologies, with particular attention to OpenType and a bit to SING as well. It won't be 100% Adobe-centric - I will certainly call attention to cool things from other foundries and companies.
But what to call it?
I have long thought that if I ever got a vanity license plate, it would read "FONT MAN" - but I'm not sure that's a great name for the blog. Another option suggested by David Lemon (whose license plate reads "TYPE NRD" btw, if you didn't know), was "Thomas on Type."
I am eager to hear any other suggestions. If I end up using your suggestion, I will buy you any one Adobe font family or application of your choice. (Note that delivery of the prize may be slow, as there is an internal ordering process I have to go through. But I'm good for it.)
Cheers,
T
23.Sep.2005 4.57pm
My Type
peace
23.Sep.2005 4.59pm
Thomas:
Here are a couple:
Mixed Sorts
Word Space
23.Sep.2005 5.10pm
One more: Virgule.
I think I like that one just because it feels cool to know what one is.
Okay, enough . . . I'll let the adults play now.
23.Sep.2005 5.36pm
Type Casting
23.Sep.2005 5.44pm
Fontabule
Typo'font
?
Kristina
23.Sep.2005 5.49pm
Phineas FOG
Phinney's Blogg
Phineus Blogg (Phineus was a borther to Cadmus - the Greek alphabet guy)
Phinney the Second (JW being the first)
More soon...
hhp
23.Sep.2005 6.58pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe
What about:
Tom's Pueblo
Pueblog
Stucco
Native Whitewash
More soon...
hhp
23.Sep.2005 7.10pm
Typophile!
No, wait...
23.Sep.2005 7.13pm
Open, Type, Font
Adobe with Character
Out of Sorts
Get the Lead Out
23.Sep.2005 7.17pm
I'd Rather Be Kerning
23.Sep.2005 7.32pm
Type log
23.Sep.2005 7.36pm
Press & Form
A very inside pun on the concept of Adobe as clay . . .
:D
23.Sep.2005 7.37pm
Thomas, what is the deadline?
23.Sep.2005 8.11pm
No particular deadline, but I'd like to make a decision by Monday morning. If I'm feeling uninspired, it could drag on.
Of course I was already feeling uninspired (and slightly jet-lagged), thus the posting here.
Cheers,
T
23.Sep.2005 8.22pm
Typographology?
Citizen Type?
Tipografico? (as in the Manuale Tipographico by Bodoni)
IHeartType?
MyOtherCarIsASanSerif?
TheTypologist?
23.Sep.2005 8.23pm
Type Review
Héctor
23.Sep.2005 8.28pm
Type Chase
23.Sep.2005 8.29pm
Long Primer
Great Primer
Nonpareil
Mutton Quad
Rationalist Axis
Hard Space
23.Sep.2005 8.46pm
Tom on Type
23.Sep.2005 8.53pm
'Thomas the Type Engine'
23.Sep.2005 8.57pm
John, good one.
hhp
23.Sep.2005 9.27pm
The Phin Man
The Phin Read Line
Get Your Kern On
Phin on Phonts
TomCaps
You Can't Spell "TYPE" without T.P.
More later :)...
23.Sep.2005 9.41pm
Pied Typer
Type Pie
Open Counter
23.Sep.2005 9.41pm
Typblography or Typblographer or
Typ(bl)ography or Typ(bl)ographer
23.Sep.2005 9.49pm
‘Thomas the Type Engine’
Damn! I can't believe John beat me to that one. He was a real Mr Topumhat :-)
ChrisL
23.Sep.2005 9.51pm
Dances With Fonts
hhp
23.Sep.2005 9.51pm
Phinneyals
ChrisL
23.Sep.2005 9.52pm
Thomas gets Sorted
ChrisL
23.Sep.2005 9.56pm
Tomahawk
hhp
23.Sep.2005 10.06pm
OpenTom
hhp
23.Sep.2005 10.27pm
Uncle Tom's Kiva
hhp
23.Sep.2005 10.48pm
hypertype - kinda got that httppeal
typeline
tyblography
(I like the type engine too)
Paul Dwyer
23.Sep.2005 10.56pm
• Hint & Out
• Thomas Magazine
• A Note From Thomas
• Handle with Care
• Adobe Type Thomas
23.Sep.2005 11.24pm
• The Metrics
• ThomasExplorer Pro
• Fontophinney
• Adobe Type Manager
• TypeWeek
23.Sep.2005 11.52pm
• Adobe Thomas Std / Pro
• Thomas Extended
• Thomas Phinney Regular
24.Sep.2005 12.20am
A more brand-identified version of my above suggestion:
Adobe Typblog
24.Sep.2005 1.10am
My suggestions are
Some Type of Phinney
Typically Thomas, or just Typically
Au Font de Bois (just in case you'd live somewhere in the woods ...)
24.Sep.2005 1.27am
• What's the point?
• Notes on notan
• Up the descender, down the ascender
• Take your pica
• em muse
• iFont
• The composition
Tim
24.Sep.2005 1.33am
Space is a letter
Phin says
Various characters
Some Characters
Ascender jungle
Phinney's Open Types
OpenTyped
OpenTyper
OpenTypographer
One More Font
24.Sep.2005 1.52am
PhinneyOpen
PhinOpen - OpenPhin - OpenThom
PhinBlog - PhinBlogger
PhinneyBlog
ThommyBlockers :-)
--astype.de--
24.Sep.2005 3.54am
Typo Beaujolais
24.Sep.2005 4.48am
Phints
(Phinney + fonts + Hints [tech.: type hinting + instruction, tip, indication])
It's short, easy to spell and remember and it does not include the both obvious and ubiquitous "type" label that I think is not necessary in the blog title - your readers will associate it anyway. "Phints" also includes a subtle notion of "mints", which would be small (11pt? ;-]) intensive and distinctive candies – not the worst thing to have in mind when thinking about entries of your blog.
Alternatively, if you don't trust the readers' media literacy and want to stress the word "type" like other posts have implicitly suggested, you could append "-ty" or "-type" (would then be: Phinty/Phintype), but you'd lose some of the "fonts" and "hints" associations.
Perhaps a short subtitle like "Thoughts on type(, Adobe) and more by Thomas Phinney" would clarify your blog's goal and its contents.
24.Sep.2005 6.11am
24.Sep.2005 6.21am
Phinney on Fonts
Phinney's Font Folder
Type Talk
24.Sep.2005 6.32am
Phintograpy
TypograPhin
GutenPhin
In with Phin
Seriphin (Tom as Angel of Fonts)
24.Sep.2005 6.37am
Typing About Type
The Type Nerd
My Type Blog (just kidding)
24.Sep.2005 7.41am
InPhinntessamal
ChrisL
24.Sep.2005 7.42am
Phinney.fea
ChrisL
24.Sep.2005 7.43am
Just Phinnished
ChrisL
24.Sep.2005 8.21am
typemas
InType
glyphblog
OpenThomas
phinnitype