Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

fontology
     
        ({XEROX PARC}) The body of knowledge dealing with the
        construction and use of new {font}s (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)