Re: Fonts of fun

[Daniele Muscetta <muscetta () gmail com>]

Sure, even currently one italian word (there's more than one for it)
for "source" is, in fact "fonte".
Cheers,


On 1/11/06, Dave Korn <dave.korn () artimi com> wrote:
> Dave Aitel wrote:
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> > I'm not sure why Font means both "a source of something" and "the way
> > letters look" in English.
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>  "Font" as a source comes via early english from the latin word "fons",
> fountain, implying a source or upwelling of something bursting forth; "font"
> as a typeface comes from the french word "fonte", or casting, from the Latin
> "fundere", to pour forth, via the old french "fondre", to melt, referring to
> the casting of a set of type.
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> [courtesy of dictionary.com - I'm not that clever!]