Template:Tdes
Template:Trade designation
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{{Trade designation}}
(shortcuts: {{tdes}}
, {{sname}}
, {{mname}}
), displays the trade designation, AKA selling name or marketing name, of a cultivated plant in a different style, as required by the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP). This practice has also been adopted by the British Royal Horticultural Society (RHS).
Some of the de facto conventions regularly used for trade designations do not work well in an online encyclopedia. For example, printed texts often use a serif font family for the main text and a sans-serif family for trade designations (or vice-versa). Since readers can set their own browser default fonts, this approach does not work in Wikipedia; many readers view all of Wikipedia in a serif font because they prefer it that way. Even when they don't, MediaWiki's "typography refresh" (from 2014 onward) now uses serif for article headings, so any trade designation appearing in a heading would not be distinguished.
The template shows trade designations, by default, in a monospaced (non-proportional) font that has been kerned for readability and to distinguish it from other uses of monospace. If that particular presentation does't work well in a particular case, it can be changed to something else. This output, using a CSS font stack, works cross-platform, regardless of browser and operating system. It has been tested in Mac OS X, Windows 8 and 10, several Linux distributions, OpenBSD Unix, Android, iOS, and ChromeOS.