Font Renaming

Jovis · Thu 04 Jan, 2007 12.20

Hello everyone,

Is there a way to rename fonts, so when you're your in Word, say, on the font list it will show up as something completely different to what it installed as.

So I could rename Comic Sans as say Crap Font, or something like that.

I've looked on the internet, and there are applications which will allow you to rename it. However it would only rename 'arialbi.ttf' to 'Arial Bold Italic.ttf', but not to a completely different name.

I am looking to do this for free, because I don't think its worth paying for it.

Thanks for any help,
Jovis

marksi · Thu 04 Jan, 2007 17.09

Can I just ask why you want to do that?!

Bail · Thu 04 Jan, 2007 17.20

Despite the filename of the font itself eg comicsans.ttf the name of the font is embedded within the font file, it is possible to change, but totally unnecessary.

Nick Harvey · Thu 04 Jan, 2007 17.50

The problem would be that if you renamed Comic Sans to Crap Font, you'd end up with a huge area of blank screen where you ought to see wondrous expanses of perfect prose, delighting you in every way.

Andrew Wood · Thu 04 Jan, 2007 18.06

Some people do like to get het up about that font...

http://bancomicsans.com

Finn · Thu 04 Jan, 2007 18.59

Nick Harvey wrote:The problem would be that if you renamed Comic Sans to Crap Font, you'd end up with a huge area of blank screen where you ought to see wondrous expanses of perfect prose, delighting you in every way.

My eyes! My eyes!

The colours! The font!

*runs screaming from the room*

Nick Harvey · Thu 04 Jan, 2007 19.20

Neil Green wrote:My eyes! My eyes!

The colours! The font!

*runs screaming from the room*

Glad you liked it!

Jovis · Thu 04 Jan, 2007 20.54

I wouldn't rename Comic Sans, or any of those important fonts, just fonts which I have installed myself.

The reason is that when I am skimming through my font list, it would be helpful if it had a name which I recognised.

Pete · Thu 04 Jan, 2007 22.04

I would like this, there are some fonts that install with odd and annoying names and it would be nice to be able to have them in the list in word with something sensible.

Si-Co · Fri 05 Jan, 2007 02.33

But Comic Sans is a 'friendly' font, just like Uncle Nick is a friendly man!

Pete · Fri 05 Jan, 2007 07.05

Neil Green wrote:My eyes! My eyes!

The colours! The font!

*runs screaming from the room*

see this is why I copy and paste every month of comment into word as unformatted unicode text. nice black on white. yum