from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
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]
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
fontology
({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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