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	A colophon, in publishing can refer to: A brief description usually located at the end of a book, describing production notes relevant to the edition A printer's mark or logotype Production notes In most cases it is a description of the text typography, often entitled A note about the type. This will identify the names of the primary typefaces used, provide a brief description of the type's history, and a brief statement about its most identifiable physical characteristics. A colophon may also identify the book's designer, software used, printing method if letterpress, the printing company, and the kind of ink, paper and its cotton content. Detailed colophons are a characteristic feature of limited edition and private press Private press Private press is a term used in the field of book collecting to describe a printing press operated as an artistic or craft-based endeavor, rather than as a purely commercial venture.... printing. Books publishers Alfred A. Knopf Alfred A. Knopf Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York City publishing house, founded by Alfred A. Knopf in 1915. It was acquired by Random House in 1960 and is now part of the Knopf Publishing Group at Random House.... and O'Reilly Media O'Reilly Media O'Reilly Media is an American Mass media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics.... are notable for their substantial colophons. If a book has a colophon, it may appear either on the same page as the copyright information, or at the back of the volume. In early printed books the colophon follows the explicit, the final words of the text. Printer's mark A less frequent use of the term is for a printer's mark or logotype. This originated in Renaissance printing shops, where a title page would feature the printer's mark (colophon) near the bottom of the page, usually above the printer's name and city. Web use Some Web pages also have colophons, which frequently contain (X XHTML The Extensible Hypertext Markup Language, or XHTML, is a markup language that has the same depth of expression as HTML, but also conforms to XML syntax.... )HTML HTML HTML, an Acronym and initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for Web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document?by denoting certain text as links, headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on?and to supplement that text with interactive forms, embedded '... , CSS Cascading Style Sheets Cascading Style Sheets is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML document, including Scalable Vector Graphics and XUL.... , or usability Usability Usability is a term used to denote the ease with which people can employ a particular tool or other human-made object in order to achieve a particular goal.... standards compliance information and links to Web site validation Validation The word validation has several uses:* In common usage, validation is the process of checking if something satisfies a certain criterion. Examples would include checking if a statement is true , if an appliance works as intended, if a computer system is secure, or if computer data are compliant with an open standard.... tests. History The term "colophon" derives from the Late Latin colophon, from the Greek Greek language Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European.... κολοφων (meaning "summit", "top", or "finishing"). It should not be confused with Colophon Colophon Colophon was a city in the region of Lydia in antiquity dating from about the turn of the first millennium-BC. It was likely one the oldest of the twelve Ionian League cities, between Lebedos and Ephesus and its ruins are in the eponymously named modern region of Ionia.... , an ancient city in Asia Minor, after which "colophony", or rosin Rosin Rosin, formerly called colophony or Greek pitch , is a solid form of resin obtained from pines and some other plants, mostly Pinophyta, produced by heating fresh liquid resin to vaporize the volatile liquid terpene components.... (ronnel) is named. The term derives from a tablet inscription appended by a scribe to the end of an ancient Near East (e.g., Early/Middle/Late Babylonian, Assyrian, Canaanite) text such as a chapter, book, manuscript, or record. In the ancient Near East, scribes typically recorded information on clay tablets. The colophon usually contained facts relative to the text such as associated person(s) (e.g., the scribe, owner, or commissioner of the tablet), literary contents (e.g., a title, "catch" phrase, number of lines), and occasion or purpose of writing. Colophons and "catch phrases" (repeated phrases) helped the reader organize and identify various tablets, and keep related tablets together. Positionally, colophons on ancient tablets are comparable to a signature line in our own times. Bibliographically, however, they more closely resemble the imprint page in a modern book. See also Jerusalem Colophon Jerusalem Colophon The Jerusalem Colophon is a Colophon found in a number of Biblical_manuscript#New_Testament_manuscripts, including Codex Tischendorfianus III, Minuscule 20, Minuscule 157, Minuscule 164, Minuscule 215, Minuscule 262, Minuscule 300, Minuscule 376, 428, Minuscule 565, 686, 718, 1071, etc....