(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 [Jargon File] (1994-12-01)