# Musician or Font **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 6, 2011, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musician-or-font/570366 "2011-02-06T04:42:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2011, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musician-or-font/570366/1 "2011-02-06T04:42:29Z")
All names are taken from charts at [Billboard.com](http://Billboard.com) for the week of February 12, 2011. All fonts are taken from a copy of Word 2003. 1. Andalus 2. Australian Sunrise 3. Biondi 4. Blue Highway 5. Boopie 6. Deerhoof 7. Disturbed 8. Easton Corbin 9. Fabolous 10. Hinder 11. Hurry Up 12. Kem 13. Lucida Bright 14. Mufferaw 15. Outright Televism 16. Plantagenet Cherokee 17. Prince Royce 18. ReservoirGrunge 19. Social Distortion 20. Stereofidelic 21. Thompson Square 22. Velvenda Cooler 23. Violento 24. Zayra 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, and 22 are fonts. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 17, 19, 21, 23, and 24 are musicians. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2011, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musician-or-font/570366/2 "2011-02-06T15:30:12Z")
Hmmm. #12 is how you spell my mother’s name. Interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musician-or-font/570366/3 "2011-02-18T02:32:45Z")
Blue Highway is also a [famous bluegrass band](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wpE29WvnQw). There are several flamenco/North African/“world” bands called Andalus or Al-Andalus. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musician-or-font/570366/4 "2011-02-18T04:34:53Z")
Not also. Blue Highway \*is \*the bluegrass band. Billboard has lots of charts. Andalus is apparently the way Billboard lists the [Al-Andalus Ensemble](http://www.andalus.com/) on their charts. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musician-or-font/570366/5 "2011-02-18T04:46:22Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Not also. Blue Highway \*is \*the bluegrass band. Blue Highway is the name both of a band and of a font. Your OP counted it only as a font. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musician-or-font/570366/6 "2011-02-18T05:10:39Z")
Ah, I remember the deal. I decided to use only names I could find on that current week’s chart. And while Blue Highway has been on the charts a couple of times, it isn’t now. They’re like Times New Viking, the group that made me think of how fontlike it sounded, but whom I had to leave off since it hasn’t charted since 2008. Same with Cake, which is also both a font and a group but I decided not to use it for some reason. It would be fun to open up the timelines and find all the groups that have ever had font names and fonts that have ever had band names. We got three already.