(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)