So being in the business, I thought I knew everything about printing, typesetting, etc.... Let's see if you can guess the origin of the word "font." We use it almost everyday, but where did it come from?
a) Appropriated from Old French, vont is the third person verb meaning "to go", inferred to mean "to go across the page."
b) Italian, fonti meaning water (from a fountain) since water was used in early printing presses
c) Old French, fonte meaning something has been melted, since molten metal was used in early printing in type foundries.
I admit I got this wrong, but it is C...think of the word "fondue"....who knew?
No comments:
Post a Comment