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For its third incarnation we can cite page 920 of the present book in which colophon is drawn into service as the title of a section that lists all the typographic fonts employed in typesetting the book.
The word colophon has undergone several metamorphoses since its earliest appearance in the 17th century: it originally referred to the inscription at the end of a book identifying its basic bibliographic information, that is, title, author, subject, publisher, date and place of publication, in other words, the information today found on the title page.
That is a useful and interesting adjunct, and we must assume that it has been called colophon because typography has been subsumed under the original rubric of bibliographic information.