Fontology N. [XEROX PARC] The Body Of Knowledge Dealing With The Construction And Use Of New Fonts (e.

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fontology n.

[XEROX PARC] The body of knowledge dealing
with the construction and use of new fonts (e.g., for window
systems and typesetting software). It has been said that fontology
recapitulates file-ogeny.

[Unfortunately, this reference to the embryological dictum that
"Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" is not merely a joke. On the
Macintosh, for example, System 7 has to go through contortions to
compensate for an earlier design error that created a whole
different set of abstractions for fonts parallel to `files' and
`folders' --ESR]

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