I think you're mixing two absolutely different types of Hungarian Notation. No offense, but what you describe seems more or less like the reviled version (stuf

I think you're mixing two absolutely different types of Hungarian Notation. No offense, but what you describe seems more or less like the reviled version (stuffing ~redundant~ information in the name, where you end up with strName and iCounter). The more-or-less accepted version described in the GP is trying to fix a shortcoming of the language's type system. If you cannot tell your compiler that this is a (default example) pixel value and this is a color, because both are plain ints to it, you're trying to make accidents less likely by requiring the programmer to double-check the prefixes (which encode a subtype, a special type. Not int, but int-representing-color or int-as-a-bool-here).