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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>fontology</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="followup.html" title="followup"/><link rel="next" href="foo.html" title="foo"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">fontology</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="followup.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="foo.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="fontology"/><dt xmlns="" id="fontology"><b>fontology</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [XEROX PARC] The body of knowledge dealing with the construction and
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use of new fonts (e.g., for window systems and typesetting software). It
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has been said that fontology recapitulates file-ogeny.</p><p>[Unfortunately, this reference to the embryological dictum that
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“<span class="quote">Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny</span>” is not merely a joke. On
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the Macintosh, for example, System 7 has to go through contortions to
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compensate for an earlier design error that created a whole different set
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of abstractions for fonts parallel to ‘files’ and
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‘folders’ —ESR]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="followup.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="foo.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">followup </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> foo</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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