name - Naming Table (OpenType 1.5)

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06/09/2022

The naming table allows multilingual strings to be associated with the OpenType™ font file. These strings can represent copyright notices, font names, family names, style names, and so on. To keep this table short, the font manufacturer may wish to make a limited set of entries in some small set of languages; later, the font can be “localized” and the strings translated or added. Other parts of the OpenType font file that require these strings can then refer to them simply by their index number. Clients that need a particular string can look it up by its platform ID, character encoding ID, language ID and name ID. Note that some platforms may require single byte character strings, while others may require double byte strings.

For historical reasons, some applications which install fonts perform version control using Macintosh platform (platform ID 1) strings from the 'name' table. Because of this, we strongly recommend that the 'name' table of all fonts include Macintosh platform strings and that the syntax of the version number (name id 5) follows the guidelines given in this document.

The Naming Table is organized as follows:

Type	Name	Description
USHORT	format	Format selector (=0).
USHORT	count	Number of name records.
USHORT	stringOffset	Offset to start of string storage (from start of table).
NameRecord	nameRecord[count]	The name records where count is the number of records.
(Variable)		Storage for the actual string data.

Each NameRecord looks like this:

Type	Name	Description
USHORT	platformID	Platform ID.
USHORT	encodingID	Platform-specific encoding ID.
USHORT	languageID	Language ID.
USHORT	nameID	Name ID.
USHORT	length	String length (in bytes).
USHORT	offset	String offset from start of storage area (in bytes).

Following are the descriptions of the four kinds of ID. Note that the specific values listed here are the only ones that are predefined; new ones may be added by registry with Apple Developer Technical Support. Similar to the character encoding table, the NameRecords are sorted by platform ID, then platform-specific ID, then language ID, and then by name ID.

Platform IDs, Platform-specific encoding IDs and Language IDs

Platform ID	Platform name	Platform-specific encoding IDs	Language IDs
0	Unicode	Various	Various
1	Macintosh	Script manager code	Various
2	ISO [deprecated]	ISO encoding [deprecated]	None
3	Microsoft	Microsoft encoding	Various
4	Custom	Custom	None

Note that platform ID 2 (ISO) has been deprecated as of OpenType Specification v1.3. It was intended to represent ISO/IEC 10646, as opposed to Unicode; both standards have identical character code assignments.

Platform ID values 240 through 255 are reserved for user-defined platforms. The DTS registry will never assign these values to a registered platform.

Unicode platform-specific encoding IDs (platform ID = 0)

Encoding ID	Description
0	Unicode 1.0 semantics
1	Unicode 1.1 semantics
2	ISO 10646 semantics
3	Unicode 2.0 and onwards semantics, Unicode BMP only.
4	Unicode 2.0 and onwards semantics, Unicode full repertoire.
5	Unicode Variation Sequences

A new encoding ID for the Unicode platform will be assigned if a new version of Unicode moves characters, in order to properly specify character code semantics. The distinction between Unicode platform-specific encoding IDs 1 and 2 is for historical reasons only; the Unicode Standard is in fact identical in repertoire and encoding to ISO 10646.

Unicode platform encoding ID 5 can be used for encodings in the 'cmap' table but not for strings in the 'name' table.

Microsoft platform-specific encoding IDs (platform ID= 3)

Platform ID	Encoding ID	Description
3	0	Symbol
3	1	Unicode BMP only
3	2	ShiftJIS
3	3	PRC
3	4	Big5
3	5	Wansung
3	6	Johab
3	7	Reserved
3	8	Reserved
3	9	Reserved
3	10	Unicode full repertoire

When building a Unicode font for Windows, the platform ID should be 3 and the encoding ID should be 1. When building a symbol font for Windows, the platform ID should be 3 and the encoding ID should be 0. When building a font that will be used on the Macintosh, the platform ID should be 1 and the encoding ID should be 0.

Microsoft Language IDs (platform ID = 3)

The language ID (LCID in the table below) refers to a value which identifies the language in which a particular string is written. Language ID’s assigned by Microsoft are listed below.

Primary Language	Region	LCID
Afrikaans	South Africa	0436
Albanian	Albania	041C
Alsatian	France	0484
Amharic	Ethiopia	045E
Arabic	Algeria	1401
Arabic	Bahrain	3C01
Arabic	Egypt	0C01
Arabic	Iraq	0801
Arabic	Jordan	2C01
Arabic	Kuwait	3401
Arabic	Lebanon	3001
Arabic	Libya	1001
Arabic	Morocco	1801
Arabic	Oman	2001
Arabic	Qatar	4001
Arabic	Saudi Arabia	0401
Arabic	Syria	2801
Arabic	Tunisia	1C01
Arabic	U.A.E.	3801
Arabic	Yemen	2401
Armenian	Armenia	042B
Assamese	India	044D
Azeri (Cyrillic)	Azerbaijan	082C
Azeri (Latin)	Azerbaijan	042C
Bashkir	Russia	046D
Basque	Basque	042D
Belarusian	Belarus	0423
Bengali	Bangladesh	0845
Bengali	India	0445
Bosnian (Cyrillic)	Bosnia and Herzegovina	201A
Bosnian (Latin)	Bosnia and Herzegovina	141A
Breton	France	047E
Bulgarian	Bulgaria	0402
Catalan	Catalan	0403
Chinese	Hong Kong S.A.R.	0C04
Chinese	Macao S.A.R.	1404
Chinese	People’s Republic of China	0804
Chinese	Singapore	1004
Chinese	Taiwan	0404
Corsican	France	0483
Croatian	Croatia	041A
Croatian (Latin)	Bosnia and Herzegovina	101A
Czech	Czech Republic	0405
Danish	Denmark	0406
Dari	Afghanistan	048C
Divehi	Maldives	0465
Dutch	Belgium	0813
Dutch	Netherlands	0413
English	Australia	0C09
English	Belize	2809
English	Canada	1009
English	Caribbean	2409
English	India	4009
English	Ireland	1809
English	Jamaica	2009
English	Malaysia	4409
English	New Zealand	1409
English	Republic of the Philippines	3409
English	Singapore	4809
English	South Africa	1C09
English	Trinidad and Tobago	2C09
English	United Kingdom	0809
English	United States	0409
English	Zimbabwe	3009
Estonian	Estonia	0425
Faroese	Faroe Islands	0438
Filipino	Philippines	0464
Finnish	Finland	040B
French	Belgium	080C
French	Canada	0C0C
French	France	040C
French	Luxembourg	140c
French	Principality of Monoco	180C
French	Switzerland	100C
Frisian	Netherlands	0462
Galician	Galician	0456
Georgian	Georgia	0437
German	Austria	0C07
German	Germany	0407
German	Liechtenstein	1407
German	Luxembourg	1007
German	Switzerland	0807
Greek	Greece	0408
Greenlandic	Greenland	046F
Gujarati	India	0447
Hausa (Latin)	Nigeria	0468
Hebrew	Israel	040D
Hindi	India	0439
Hungarian	Hungary	040E
Icelandic	Iceland	040F
Igbo	Nigeria	0470
Indonesian	Indonesia	0421
Inuktitut	Canada	045D
Inuktitut (Latin)	Canada	085D
Irish	Ireland	083C
isiXhosa	South Africa	0434
isiZulu	South Africa	0435
Italian	Italy	0410
Italian	Switzerland	0810
Japanese	Japan	0411
Kannada	India	044B
Kazakh	Kazakhstan	043F
Khmer	Cambodia	0453
K’iche	Guatemala	0486
Kinyarwanda	Rwanda	0487
Kiswahili	Kenya	0441
Konkani	India	0457
Korean	Korea	0412
Kyrgyz	Kyrgyzstan	0440
Lao	Lao P.D.R.	0454
Latvian	Latvia	0426
Lithuanian	Lithuania	0427
Lower Sorbian	Germany	082E
Luxembourgish	Luxembourg	046E
Macedonian (FYROM)	Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	042F
Malay	Brunei Darussalam	083E
Malay	Malaysia	043E
Malayalam	India	044C
Maltese	Malta	043A
Maori	New Zealand	0481
Mapudungun	Chile	047A
Marathi	India	044E
Mohawk	Mohawk	047C
Mongolian (Cyrillic)	Mongolia	0450
Mongolian (Traditional)	People’s Republic of China	0850
Nepali	Nepal	0461
Norwegian (Bokmal)	Norway	0414
Norwegian (Nynorsk)	Norway	0814
Occitan	France	0482
Oriya	India	0448
Pashto	Afghanistan	0463
Polish	Poland	0415
Portuguese	Brazil	0416
Portuguese	Portugal	0816
Punjabi	India	0446
Quechua	Bolivia	046B
Quechua	Ecuador	086B
Quechua	Peru	0C6B
Romanian	Romania	0418
Romansh	Switzerland	0417
Russian	Russia	0419
Sami (Inari)	Finland	243B
Sami (Lule)	Norway	103B
Sami (Lule)	Sweden	143B
Sami (Northern)	Finland	0C3B
Sami (Northern)	Norway	043B
Sami (Northern)	Sweden	083B
Sami (Skolt)	Finland	203B
Sami (Southern)	Norway	183B
Sami (Southern)	Sweden	1C3B
Sanskrit	India	044F
Serbian (Cyrillic)	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1C1A
Serbian (Cyrillic)	Serbia	0C1A
Serbian (Latin)	Bosnia and Herzegovina	181A
Serbian (Latin)	Serbia	081A
Sesotho sa Leboa	South Africa	046C
Setswana	South Africa	0432
Sinhala	Sri Lanka	045B
Slovak	Slovakia	041B
Slovenian	Slovenia	0424
Spanish	Argentina	2C0A
Spanish	Bolivia	400A
Spanish	Chile	340A
Spanish	Colombia	240A
Spanish	Costa Rica	140A
Spanish	Dominican Republic	1C0A
Spanish	Ecuador	300A
Spanish	El Salvador	440A
Spanish	Guatemala	100A
Spanish	Honduras	480A
Spanish	Mexico	080A
Spanish	Nicaragua	4C0A
Spanish	Panama	180A
Spanish	Paraguay	3C0A
Spanish	Peru	280A
Spanish	Puerto Rico	500A
Spanish (Modern Sort)	Spain	0C0A
Spanish (Traditional Sort)	Spain	040A
Spanish	United States	540A
Spanish	Uruguay	380A
Spanish	Venezuela	200A
Sweden	Finland	081D
Swedish	Sweden	041D
Syriac	Syria	045A
Tajik (Cyrillic)	Tajikistan	0428
Tamazight (Latin)	Algeria	085F
Tamil	India	0449
Tatar	Russia	0444
Telugu	India	044A
Thai	Thailand	041E
Tibetan	PRC	0451
Turkish	Turkey	041F
Turkmen	Turkmenistan	0442
Uighur	PRC	0480
Ukrainian	Ukraine	0422
Upper Sorbian	Germany	042E
Urdu	Islamic Republic of Pakistan	0420
Uzbek (Cyrillic)	Uzbekistan	0843
Uzbek (Latin)	Uzbekistan	0443
Vietnamese	Vietnam	042A
Welsh	United Kingdom	0452
Wolof	Senegal	0448
Yakut	Russia	0485
Yi	PRC	0478
Yoruba	Nigeria	046A

Macintosh platform-specific encoding IDs (script manager codes), (platform ID = 1)

Code	Script	Code	Script
0	Roman	17	Malayalam
1	Japanese	18	Sinhalese
2	Chinese (Traditional)	19	Burmese
3	Korean	20	Khmer
4	Arabic	21	Thai
5	Hebrew	22	Laotian
6	Greek	23	Georgian
7	Russian	24	Armenian
8	RSymbol	25	Chinese (Simplified)
9	Devanagari	26	Tibetan
10	Gurmukhi	27	Mongolian
11	Gujarati	28	Geez
12	Oriya	29	Slavic
13	Bengali	30	Vietnamese
14	Tamil	31	Sindhi
15	Telugu	32	Uninterpreted
16	Kannada

Macintosh language IDs (platform ID = 1)

Code	Language	Code	Language
0	English	59	Pashto
1	French	60	Kurdish
2	German	61	Kashmiri
3	Italian	62	Sindhi
4	Dutch	63	Tibetan
5	Swedish	64	Nepali
6	Spanish	65	Sanskrit
7	Danish	66	Marathi
8	Portuguese	67	Bengali
9	Norwegian	68	Assamese
10	Hebrew	69	Gujarati
11	Japanese	70	Punjabi
12	Arabic	71	Oriya
13	Finnish	72	Malayalam
14	Greek	73	Kannada
15	Icelandic	74	Tamil
16	Maltese	75	Telugu
17	Turkish	76	Sinhalese
18	Croatian	77	Burmese
19	Chinese (Traditional)	78	Khmer
20	Urdu	79	Lao
21	Hindi	80	Vietnamese
22	Thai	81	Indonesian
23	Korean	82	Tagalong
24	Lithuanian	83	Malay (Roman script)
25	Polish	84	Malay (Arabic script)
26	Hungarian	85	Amharic
27	Estonian	86	Tigrinya
28	Latvian	87	Galla
29	Sami	88	Somali
30	Faroese	89	Swahili
31	Farsi/Persian	90	Kinyarwanda/Ruanda
32	Russian	91	Rundi
33	Chinese (Simplified)	92	Nyanja/Chewa
34	Flemish	93	Malagasy
35	Irish Gaelic	94	Esperanto
36	Albanian	128	Welsh
37	Romanian	129	Basque
38	Czech	130	Catalan
39	Slovak	131	Latin
40	Slovenian	132	Quenchua
41	Yiddish	133	Guarani
42	Serbian	134	Aymara
43	Macedonian	135	Tatar
44	Bulgarian	136	Uighur
45	Ukrainian	137	Dzongkha
46	Byelorussian	138	Javanese (Roman script)
47	Uzbek	139	Sundanese (Roman script)
48	Kazakh	140	Galician
49	Azerbaijani (Cyrillic script)	141	Afrikaans
50	Azerbaijani (Arabic script)	142	Breton
51	Armenian	14	Inuktitut
52	Georgian	144	Scottish Gaelic
53	Moldavian	145	Manx Gaelic
54	Kirghiz	146	Irish Gaelic (with dot above)
55	Tajiki	147	Tongan
56	Turkmen	148	Greek (polytonic)
57	Mongolian (Mongolian script)	149	Greenlandic
58	Mongolian (Cyrillic script)	150	Azerbaijani (Roman script)

ISO specific encodings (platform ID=2) [Deprecated]

Code	ISO encoding
0	7-bit ASCII
1	ISO 10646
2	ISO 8859-1

There are no ISO-specific language IDs.

Custom platform-specific encoding IDs (platform ID = 4)

ID	Custom encoding
0-255	OTF Windows NT compatibility mapping

In cases where a custom platform cmap is present for OTF Windows NT compatibility, the encoding ID must be set to the Windows charset value (in the range 0 to 255, inclusive) present in the .PFM file of the original Type 1 font. See the 'cmap' table for more details on the OTF Windows NT compatibility cmap.

There are currently no language IDs defined for the Custom platform. This means that it can be used for encodings in the 'cmap' table but not for strings in the 'name' table.

Name IDs

The following name IDs are pre-defined, and they apply to all platforms unless indicated otherwise. Name IDs 23 to 255, inclusive, are reserved for future standard names. Name IDs 256 to 32767, inclusive, are reserved for font-specific names such as those referenced by a font’s layout features.

Code	Meaning
0	Copyright notice.
1	Font Family name. Up to four fonts can share the Font Family name, forming a font style linking group (regular, italic, bold, bold italic - as defined by OS/2.fsSelection bit settings).
2	Font Subfamily name. The Font Subfamily name distiguishes the font in a group with the same Font Family name (name ID 1). This is assumed to address style (italic, oblique) and weight (light, bold, black, etc.). A font with no particular differences in weight or style (e.g. medium weight, not italic and fsSelection bit 6 set) should have the string “Regular” stored in this position.
3	Unique font identifier
4	Full font name; this should be a combination of strings 1 and 2. Exception: if the font is “Regular” as indicated in string 2, then use only the family name contained in string 1. An exception to the above definition of Full font name is for Microsoft platform strings for CFF OpenType fonts: in this case, the Full font name string must be identical to the PostScript FontName in the CFF Name INDEX.
5	Version string. Should begin with the syntax ‘Version <number>.<number>’ (upper case, lower case, or mixed, with a space between “Version” and the number). The string must contain a version number of the following form: one or more digits (0-9) of value less than 65,535, followed by a period, followed by one or more digits of value less than 65,535. Any character other than a digit will terminate the minor number. A character such as “;” is helpful to separate different pieces of version information. The first such match in the string can be used by installation software to compare font versions. Note that some installers may require the string to start with “Version ”, followed by a version number as above.
6	Postscript name for the font; Name ID 6 specifies a string which is used to invoke a PostScript language font that corresponds to this OpenType font. If no name ID 6 is present, then there is no defined method for invoking this font on a PostScript interpreter. OpenType fonts which include a name with name ID of 6 shall include these two names with name ID 6, and characteristics as follows: Platform: 1 [Macintosh]; Platform-specific encoding: 0 [Roman]; Language: 0 [English]. Platform: 3 [Microsoft]; Platform-specific encoding: 1 [Unicode]; Language: 0x409 [English (American)]. Names with name ID 6 other than the above two, if present, must be ignored. When translated to ASCII, these two name strings must be identical; no longer than 63 characters; and restricted to the printable ASCII subset, codes 33 through 126, except for the 10 characters: '[', ']', '(', ')', '{', '}', '<', '>', '/', '%'. In CFF OpenType fonts, these two name strings, when translated to ASCII, must also be identical to the font name as stored in the CFF’s Name INDEX. The term “PostScript Name” here means a string identical to the two identical name ID 6 strings described above. Depending on the particular font format that PostScript language font uses, the invocation method for the PostScript font differs, and the semantics of the resulting PostScript language font differ. The method used to invoke this font depends on the presence of name ID 20. If a name ID 20 is present in this font, then the default assumption should be that the PostScript Name defined by name ID 6 should be used with the “composefont” invocation. This PostScript Name is then the name of a PostScript language CIDFont resource which corresponds to the glyphs of the OpenType font. This name is valid to pass, with an appropriate PostScript language CMap reference, and an instance name, to the PostScript language “composefont” operator. If no name ID 20 is present in this font, then the default assumption should be that the PostScript Name defined by name ID 6 should be used with the “findfont” invocation, for locating the font in the context of a PostScript interpreter. This PostScript Name is then the name of a PostScript language Font resource which corresponds to the glyphs of the OpenType font. This name is valid to pass to the PostScript language “findfont” operator. Note that this does not necessarily imply that the resulting font dictionary accepts an /Encoding array, such as when the font referenced is a Type 0 PostScript font. Note that this specification applies only to data fork OpenType fonts. Macintosh resource-fork TrueType and other Macintosh sfnt-wrapped fonts supply the PostScript font name to be used with the “findfont” invocation, in order to invoke the font in a PostScript interpreter, in the FOND resource style-mapping table. Developers may choose to ignore the default usage when appropriate. For example, PostScript printers whose version is earlier than 2015 cannot process CID font resources, and a CJK OpenType/CFF-CID font can be downloaded only as a set of Type 1 PostScript fonts. Legacy CJK TrueType fonts, which do not have a name ID 20, may still be most effectively downloaded as a CID font resource. Definition of the full set of situations in which the defaults should not be followed is outside the scope of this document.
7	Trademark; this is used to save any trademark notice/information for this font. Such information should be based on legal advice. This is distinctly separate from the copyright.
8	Manufacturer Name.
9	Designer; name of the designer of the typeface.
10	Description; description of the typeface. Can contain revision information, usage recommendations, history, features, etc.
11	URL Vendor; URL of font vendor (with protocol, e.g., http://, ftp://). If a unique serial number is embedded in the URL, it can be used to register the font.
12	URL Designer; URL of typeface designer (with protocol, e.g., http://, ftp://).
13	License Description; description of how the font may be legally used, or different example scenarios for licensed use. This field should be written in plain language, not legalese.
14	License Info URL; URL where additional licensing information can be found.
15	Reserved; Set to zero.
16	Preferred Family; For historical reasons, font families have contained a maximum of four styles, but font designers may group more than four fonts to a single family. The Preferred Family allows font designers to include the preferred family grouping which containsmore than four fonts. This ID is only present if it is different from ID 1.
17	Preferred Subfamily; Allows font designers to include the preferred subfamily grouping that is more descriptive than ID 2. This ID is only present if it is different from ID 2 and must be unique for the the Preferred Family.
18	Compatible Full (Macintosh only); On the Macintosh, the menu name is constructed using the FOND resource. This usually matches the Full Name. If you want the name of the font to appear differently than the Full Name, you can insert the Compatible Full Name in ID 18.
19	Sample text; This can be the font name, or any other text that the designer thinks is the best sample to display the font in.
20	PostScript CID findfont name; Its presence in a font means that the nameID 6 holds a PostScript font name that is meant to be used with the “composefont” invocation in order to invoke the font in a PostScript interpreter. See the definition of name ID 6. The value held in the name ID 20 string is interpreted as a PostScript font name that is meant to be used with the “findfont” invocation, in order to invoke the font in a PostScript interpreter. If the name ID 20 is present in a font, there must be one name ID 20 record for every Macintosh platform cmap subtable in that font. A particular name ID 20 record is associated with the encoding specified by the matching cmap subtable. A name ID 20 record is matched to a cmap subtable when they have the same platform and platform-specific encoding IDs, and corresponding language/version IDs. Name ID 20 records are meant to be used only with Macintosh cmap subtables. The version field for a cmap subtable is one more than the language ID value for the corresponding name ID 20 record, with the exception of the cmap subtable version field 0. This version field, meaning “not language-specific”, corresponds to the language ID value 0xFFFF, or decimal 65535, for the corresponding name ID 20 record. When translated to ASCII, this name string must be restricted to the printable ASCII subset, codes 33 through 126, except for the 10 characters: '[', ']', '(', ')', '{', '}', '<', '>', '/', '%'. Note that this specification applies only to data fork OpenType fonts. Macintosh resource-fork TrueType and other Macintosh sfnt-wrapped fonts supply the PostScript font name to be used with the “findfont” invocation, in order to invoke the font in a PostScript interpreter, in the FOND resource style-mapping table. Note that a particular Name ID 20 string always corresponds to a particular Macintosh cmap subtable. However, some host OpenType/TTF fonts also contain a post table, format 4, which provides a mapping from glyph ID to encoding value, and also corresponds to a particular Macintosh cmap subtable. Unfortunately, the post table format 4 contains no provision for identifying which Macintosh cmap subtable it matches, nor for providing more than one mapping. Host fonts which contain a post table format 4, should also contain only a single Macintosh cmap subtable, and a single Name ID 20 string. In the case where there is more than one Macintosh cmap subtable and more than one Name ID 20 string, there is no definition of which one matches the post table format 4.
21	WWS Family Name. Used to provide a WWS-conformant family name in case the entries for IDs 16 and 17 do not conform to the WWS model. (That is, in case the entry for ID 17 includes qualifiers for some attribute other than weight, width or slope.) If bit 8 of the fsSelection field is set, a WWS Family Name entry should not be needed and should not be included. Conversely, if an entry for this ID is include, bit 8 should not be set. (See OS/2 ‘fsSelection’ field for details.) Examples of name ID 21: “Minion Pro Caption” and “Minion Pro Display”. (Name ID 16 would be “Minion Pro” for these examples.)
22	WWS Subfamily Name. Used in conjunction with ID 21, this ID provides a WWS-conformant subfamily name (reflecting only weight, width and slope attributes) in case the entries for IDs 16 and 17 do not conform to the WWS model. As in the case of ID 21, use of this ID should correlate inversely with bit 8 of the fsSelection field being set. Examples of name ID 22: “Semibold Italic”, “Bold Condensed”. (Name ID 17 could be “Semibold Italic Caption”, or “Bold Condensed Display”, for example.)

Note that while both Apple and Microsoft support the same set of name strings, the interpretations may be somewhat different. But since name strings are stored by platform, encoding and language (placing separate strings for both Apple and MS platforms), this should not present a problem.

The key information for this table for MS fonts relates to the use of strings 1, 2 and 4. To better help understand, some examples of name usage, weight class and style flags have been created.

Note that OS/2 and Windows both require that all name strings be defined in Unicode. Thus all 'name' table strings for platform ID = 3 (Microsoft) will require two bytes per character. Macintosh fonts require single byte strings.

Note that, for a typographic family that includes non-WWS variations, some of the member faces will differ from Regular in relation to attributes other than weight, width or slope, but there will likely also be some member faces that differ only in relation to these three attributes. IDs 21 and 22 should be used only in those fonts that differ from the Regular face in terms of an attribute other than weight, width or slope.

Examples of how these strings might be defined:

The name the user sees. Times New Roman
The name of the style. Bold
A unique identifier that applications can store to identify the font being used. Monotype: Times New Roman Bold:1990
The complete, hopefully unique, human readable name of the font. This name is used by Windows. Times New Roman Bold
(If this were the Microsoft platform string for a CFF OpenType font, then the value would be TimesNewRoman-Bold, as described in the definition of name ID 4 above.)
Release and version information from the font vendor. Version 1.00 June 1, 1990, initial release
The name the font will be known by on a PostScript printer. TimesNewRoman-Bold
Trademark string. Times New Roman is a registered trademark of the Monotype Corporation.
Manufacturer. Monotype Corporation plc
Designer. Stanley Morison
Description. Designed in 1932 for the Times of London newspaper. Excellent readability and a narrow overall width, allowing more words per line than most fonts.
URL of Vendor. http://www.monotype.com
URL of Designer. http://www.monotype.com
License Description. This font may be installed on all of your machines and printers, but you may not sell or give these fonts to anyone else.
License Info URL. <http://www.monotype.com/license/>
Reserved. Set to zero.
Preferred Family. No name string present, since it is the same as name ID 1 (Font Family name).
Preferred Subfamily. No name string present, since it is the same as name ID 2 (Font Subfamily name).
Compatible Full (Macintosh only). No name string present, since it is the same as name ID 4 (Full name).
Sample text. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
PostScript CID findfont name. No name string present. Thus, the PostScript Name defined by name ID 6 should be used with the “findfont” invocation for locating the font in the context of a PostScript interpreter.
WWS family name: Since Times New Roman is a WWS font, this field does not need to be specified. If the font contained styles such as “caption”, “display”, “handwriting”, etc, that would be noted here.
WWS subfamily name: Since Times New Roman is a WWS font, this field does not need to be specified.

The following is an example of only name IDs 6 and 20 in the CFF OpenType Japanese font Kozuka Mincho Std Regular (other name IDs are also present in this font):

6. PostScript name: KozMinStd-Regular. Since a name ID 20 is present in the font (see below), then the PostScript name defined by name ID 6 should be used with the “composefont” invocation for locating the font in the context of a PostScript interpreter.

20. PostScript CID findfont name: KozMinStd-Regular-83pv-RKSJ-H, in a name record of Platform 1 [Macintosh], Platform-specific script 1 [Japanese], Language: 0xFFFF [English]. This name string is a PostScript name that should be used with the “findfont” invocation for locating the font in the context of a PostScript interpreter, and is associated with the encoding specified by the following cmap subtable, which must be present in the font: Platform: 1 [Macintosh]; Platform-specific encoding: 1 [Japanese]; Language: 0 [not language-specific].

The following is an example of family/subfamily naming for an extended, WWS-only family. Consider Adobe Caslon Pro, with six members: upright and italic versions of regular, semibold and bold weights. (Bit 8 of the fsSelection field of the OS/2 table, version 4, should be set for all six fonts, and none should include 'name' entries for IDs 21 or 22.)

Adobe Caslon Pro Regular:
Name ID 1: Adobe Caslon Pro
Name ID 2: Regular
Adobe Caslon Pro Italic:
Name ID 1: Adobe Caslon Pro
Name ID 2: Italic
Adobe Caslon Pro Semibold:
Name ID 1: Adobe Caslon Pro
Name ID 2: Bold
Name ID 16: Adobe Caslon Pro
Name ID 17: Semibold
Adobe Caslon Pro Semibold Italic:
Name ID 1: Adobe Caslon Pro
Name ID 2: Bold Italic
Name ID 16: Adobe Caslon Pro
Name ID 17: Semibold Italic
Adobe Caslon Pro Bold:
Name ID 1: Adobe Caslon Pro Bold
Name ID 2: Regular
Name ID 16: Adobe Caslon Pro
Name ID 17: Bold
Adobe Caslon Pro Bold Italic:
Name ID 1: Adobe Caslon Pro Bold
Name ID 2: Italic
Name ID 16: Adobe Caslon Pro
Name ID 17: Bold Italic

The following is an example of family/subfamily naming for an extended, non-WWS family. Consider Minion Pro Opticals, with 32 member fonts: upright and italic versions of regular, medium, semibold and bold weights in each of four optical sizes: regular, caption, display and subhead. The following show names for a sampling of the fonts in this family. (Bit 8 of the fsSelection field in the OS/2 table, version 4, should be set in those fonts that do not include 'name' entries for IDs 21 or 22, and only in those fonts.)

Minion Pro Regular:
Name ID 1: Minion Pro
Name ID 2: Regular
Minion Pro Italic:
Name ID 1: Minion Pro
Name ID 2: Italic
Minion Pro Semibold:
Name ID 1: Minion Pro SmBd
Name ID 2: Regular
Name ID 16: Minion Pro
Name ID 17: Semibold
Minion Pro Semibold Italic:
Name ID 1: Minion Pro SmBd
Name ID 2: Italic
Name ID 16: Minion Pro
Name ID 17: Semibold Italic
Minion Pro Caption:
Name ID 1: Minion Pro Capt
Name ID 2: Regular
Name ID 16: Minion Pro
Name ID 17: Caption
Name ID 21: Minion Pro Caption
Name ID 22: Regular
Minion Pro Semibold Italic Caption:
Name ID 1: Minion Pro SmBd Capt
Name ID 2: Italic
Name ID 16: Minion Pro
Name ID 17: Semibold Italic Caption
Name ID 21: Minion Pro Caption
Name ID 22: Semibold Italic