Sing along now: I'm a little Dezpot short and stout, tip me over and type pours out :-)

ChrisL

groan.... ;-)

So long as you're a benevolent Dezpot, we'll all do fine!

LOL times two!

LOL!!!

ChrisL

the only hanging the Dezpot allows is for punctuation.

You have to be careful in Punnery, it is ruled by an evil Dezpot :-)

Oh...my...God. I might have to hang myself. :)

> Foundries would be nations.

Ah, more reason for somebody to pick up "Despotype", quick.

hhp

I generally use MultiStyle, at least in 1994 (then 1997 for public release) when I have designed Le Monde.

Reading various proposals here, I like "Suite" too. Suite is quite international, and we all probably know what Suite mean versus a Room. Nice analogy.

But, its really contextual and depending of the family itself. I'm not fan of strict rules. Its same kind of stuff as discussing type classifications. Be free, do what you want, as long as it serve your case.

Linda,
You have to be careful in Punnery, it is ruled by an evil Dezpot :-)

ChrisL

It's a habit I can't break.... ;-)

(And wouldn't you know it, AMC is running "The Blues Brothers": let's hear it for The Penguin!)

We'll have nun of that sister :-)

ChrisL

I can see the tourism campaign ads now: "Get Thee to a Punnery!" :-)

serifsans

Ah, yes! The Seracens! :-)

ChrisL

Serisansilicious?

Sure, I will call it "The Republic of Punnery" and our currency will be the Double entendre :-)

ChrisL

That's easy, Chris: start your own! ;-)

“Foundries would be nations….”

and I would be a Man Without a Country :-)

ChrisL

"Foundries would be nations...."

I like that, The United States of Font Bureau.

" Ultranasuprafludextrous for just one level and Transhyperobotlectic..."
That's good, but as I was thinking ahead to the localization issues...;)

> Individual typefaces would be cities, the fonts neighbourhoods, and the individual glyphs citizens. Foundries would be nations.

Beautiful… and we would have many Gods.

Conurbation.
Individual typefaces would be cities, the fonts neighbourhoods, and the individual glyphs citizens. Foundries would be nations.

>I don’t know if someone else suggested it, but what about Mix Family?

Luc's TheSans, TheSerif, TheMix ... TheMix being a hybrid sans/serif

David,

I like your terms though I prefer Ultranasuprafludextrous for just one level and Transhyperobotlectic other kinds. Sounds more threatening.

I like Tran Serif for just one level, and Omniterminant or Ambiterminant for other kinds.

I don't know if someone else suggested it, but what about Mix Family?

http://www.typeoff.de/?p=48

everyone knows fonts grow on trees ;-)

Si

I was going to suggest 'system' as well, but I see it's already been mentioned a number of times. That is my favorite term so far.

Or how about 'font tree'? Which would suggest that families are individual 'branches'.

Thanks, you beat me to that comment, although I probably would have used the word "sterile."

'System' is perhaps more descriptive than 'suite', but somehow it sounds a little cold for something with an important aesthetic and emotional dimension.

Dan beat me to it - 'type system' is the answer, as in the TDC type design compo section.

At Linotype, we started calling all typefaces that had more than one variant "Type Systems" in our printed media (i.e., the "Charlotte Type System," which has two typeface families inside of it, Charlotte and Charlotte Sans… or URW's Corporate ASE, which is a system with three typeface families, and our Compatil & new Generis, which have four, etc.)

For awhile, on our website, we would refer to these type systems as "Font Family Groups" as well, i.e., the "ITC Stone Font Family Group."

And 3-4 decades late.

hhp

That's with a K.

Clan can have a very bad meaning in the USA as well.

ChrisL

Of course, the problem with the term "clan" is that FontFont just released a family named FF Clan so they claim it now :)

A.

Y ou could call a multi-script family a Babel?

ChrisL

If you do that, you could call the constituent faces "septs"....

I say "clan".

Suite is nice, in fact I am planning to use it for a set of mixed sans and sans serif faces.
However, they are not family related, although they share similar proportions and x-height.
So "suite" is more like "mix pack". Storm has something like that, a sans, a serif, and a script, if I recall correctly.

Suite could be considered family, but it would be adoptive or loosely tribal, rather than closely genetically related.
"We are fam-i-ly, I got all my bothers and sisters and me" -- Sly & the Family Stone

Conor has it. I like suite too. It doesn't imply size, as "super family" does.

Suite

Sweet. :)

Oh, ok. I'm being too literal. Typical.

>Are you sure?

I'm not even sure it's Friday :)

suite |swēt|
noun
a set of things belonging together

Suite also [just] means series. Comes from the French for "follow".

hhp

Suite implies more than one kind of room contained therein, like a kitchen, bathroom, salon, and bedroom. Are you sure?

Personally I always call them Hybrid Families.

Suite is a good suggestion--it could stick, if a foundry starts using it. 'Thesis Font Suite' etc.

Just family.