Script Font for Name with Suffix

Just another idea: Poetica would be my choice. It has four A-z sets with different ornaments. You may use a flourish one to the whole text and a simpler to the III. Zapfino Pro has also a similar resource. These fonts also include true small caps, which is the correct choice to roman numerals.

If I follow... For future reference Fontshop.com now has a feature to show the entire glyph-set for any of the fonts they license.

I'm really sorry everyone - I've been having trouble logging back in, but I've been following the conversation religiously!

So I tried a few different versions and none made the client happy. We wound up going back to the standard business-classy Americana Extra Bold and avoided the problem entirely. I did try a few Roman fonts and outlined them in Illustrator and tilted them myself to try to match the slant of the ital. Mediocre at best, but I think it could have worked if they'd wanted to continue in that direction.

It's interesting though - when it happened, I just imagined that I was missing something so basic and that I'd get a string of "Duh" replies. But even the folks at fonts.com and myfonts.com had no suggestions except to try any font that looked like it might work! :)

Thanks again for all your time, and may the Prince of Wales be an inspiration to us all... (ie don't use the roman numerals, they're just a pain in the arse.)

Mike

Dominic,<br />>Not that any of this helps Mike<br /><br />I think we are just biding time here, eagerly awaiting Mike's return! <g><br /><br />Neil

Actually, he signed it "George R" (for "Rex"). See the image at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdom . I believe they all do this. So, Queen Elizabeth signs "Elizabeth R" (though in that case it stands for "Regina").

(Not that any of this helps Mike. Mike, have you tried setting it in small caps? That's assuming the font you want to use has them, and not many script faces do.)

So, King George III signed his name as just plain "George"? <g><br /><br />Neil

Monarchs don't use last names. :D

Now that I think of it, they don't use the numerals themselves either.

But...maybe this all stems from the time-honored conventions of monarchial succession as used in many cultures.

Neil

>the whole naming children after their parents convention seems more of an American and English thing

I'd say the whole naming children numerically convention seems exclusively an American and English thing. I've never encountered it in any other culture.

Who was it? Boxer George Foreman who named each of his children "George" but added "II", "III", "IV"... to their names, to distinguish one from the next?<br /><br />Don't even bother with the over-inflated ego involved there!<br /><br />Neil (The First, The Last, and The Only) <g>