696: font Nov 3, 2016

When you want to change fonts on a word document, you just melt down metal alloys and shape them into letters, right? Almost certainly wrong, but only because of the era in which this audience lives. For printing presses, all of the keys and fonts had to be created physically out of metal. The word 'font' comes from the French word, 'fondre' meaning 'to melt', as do related the words, 'founder' and 'found' as in molding metal.