I promise this story about fonts is interesting

I expected something beautiful - like secret industry standards and subconscious control via conditioning of humans to certain fonts - not this trash history lesson anyone could pull off for the 6th grade presentation.

No mention for Cooper black! 😮

bro you made me tear up over letters pretty sure thats a crime

Hebrew fonts came way before greek writing and are the base for the modern alpha-bet (alef bet in Hebrew)

not me crying over a video about fonts at 4pm on a friday

Nice! Yeah, you can see fonts in everything. Well said.

Great video dude. I love learning about stuff that you never really think about. It kinda expands your mind to think that something so innocuous would have do much to bring it to what we have today.

you lied

Damn, you got to me a little there. That was a very well done condensed history. Great!

Vincent Higgins has such serif hair tho

No idea why YT showed me this a year later but I subbed/liked/belled simply bc "lapidary" is one of my favourite all-time words. Since childhood. Mmm good word.

You had me at "lapidary".

I'd love to see you cover the typology of Hangul, the Korean writing system. Every time I look at it I'm amazed people could pull this off, and just the sheer amount of labor that goes into it since you have to design every possible combination of how individual letters can be arranged in a syllable! The programming that goes behind it is also mindblowing genius. The whole CJK fonts with Han characters are also fascinating on the sheer inventiveness of new design too. But great video overall!

What a great video!

Jokerman, Eraser Dust, Country Blueprint, etc. were cutting edge.. until they weren't anymore. I lost Jokerman when I went from 32 bit to 64 bit. Maybe Microsoft was jealous.

Interesting video. I had the role of technical support for a graphics company in the early '90s that had a collection of over 700 typefaces, both internally designed and recreations of licensed names. It was eventually absorbed into Adobe itself. Seeing that you used most sans-serif in your descriptions, one of the benefits of sans-self is that it lends itself very well to kerning. I have to question your pronunciation of Monaco, why the Arial in your video is different than the one on my Windows PC, especially in letters like the lowercase "a" and "e", and using a phrase like "Arial size 14" instead of the more common standard of "14-point Arial".

I loved using Comic Sans when I was growing up

Quality video, thanks

No many seem to remember it nowadays, but the dot matrix printer standard typeface was a big thing for a 20-year or so period

Just got a small correction for you - "grotesque" is the name of a style of sans serif font, not another name for sans serif. Grotesque fonts are things like Helvetica and Ariel and the O's are squarish, then there's also geometric, recognisable by their perfect circles (eg Futura), and humanist, which are more similar to serif fonts

The music is louder than you are.

What’s the font used for “playful” right at the start?

Thanks!

Thanks for KEEPING your promise...

Fonts are amazing! EXCEPT COMIC SANS COMIC SANS WILL BURN IN HELL.

and papyrus, to a lesser extent…
Heck, any default font has better options out there.

Cool video

Yeah. But how does Undertale fit into all this?

Arial is the ultimate font. its the most legible at tiny, tiny sizes. its legible at massive sizes. it has awesome kerning. it has awesome faces (italics, bold, small caps, etc). I really don't think anything can improve on Arial for english

I love Papyrus, you can pull papyrus out of my cold, dead hands

Excellent Documentary on Typefaces and Fonts.

Come on! I love Papyrus!

Opendyslexic is my favorite font, and i dont even have dyslexia

What a video man, this is so informative, thank you!

Futura is the best

and he ends with Comic Sans. X)

whats the irony with comic sans?

they didnt even mention the greek style fonts!!

Any time I can use a font where I and l aren’t the same I will because I=l is stupid

Vikings were first with sans serif and as a descendant we feel left out of this video… 😢

this was so interesting!

Why did Steve choose font instead of type face in MacOS, I'll put my money on that it's because font is a short word that could easily fit within the design space.

A little aside - the word ‘cuneiform’ is pronounced ’cue-nay-ih-form’.

This video is just awesome! (And the title kept it's promise.)

This at least to me is a somewhat wholesome video. I met far to many people lately who call themselves digital media designers and yet don't seem to know the basics of typography or graphics. They use word processing programs incorrectly and don't know the difference between bitmaps and vector graphics. It's tiring when you have to rely on people like that at work because they're supposed to provide you with what you need as a web developer for implementation in your day-to-day business.

Wow. Great and informative video. Amazing host. Great tats brother.

This video seemed bizarre and interesting all at the same time. I will watch and Post observation

One thing I once learned about Comic Sans: It was also designed with the then common low-res screens in mind, being way more legible than typefaces with serifs.

I made a powerpoint discussing the strengths and weaknesses of Curlz MT in an InDesign class once. I think the teacher was surprised when I picked one of the lesser-memed Meme Fonts for it. Turned out pretty well.