I teach typography and this video is straight to the point and very useful. I spend two weeks talking about History of Type and then I show your 5 minute video to my students and they say "Oh, I get it now." Thanks.
The animation is so smooth for a stop motion film! It's probably due to the smooth sound effects that match the video nicely, giving the illusion of smoothness. What an excellent piece!
@@aashita224 Ben should be getting paid for it, that's a bit frustrating to hand off the information to a screen whilst the teacher is actively just letting someone else inform the class. hm. My college teachers did this and i'd complain. The video itself is great, but give it as background research for personal time outside of class to look up - but teach the class don't chuck a video on and sit down.
@@nataliabennett8157 That's true, they should teach rather than someone else doing it for them. But also I would say we get a break from the normal teaching. But maybe they can use video examples rather than just someone doing to explaining. We can't really complain anywhere so stuck with what we get. lol
You may have put lots of work into that, but it was 100% worth it. This video will still be played in decades to come to give people a good overview about the classic typefaces. Thank you!
And finally, Beth Mickley created Emotifont, where emotions are incorporated into the fonts giving a clear visual of the intent behind the message! It is revolutionizing the texting industry!
If you're still into typography, I have a podcast on the lives, careers, and minds of history's most influential type designers :) Would love to have you check it out!
Thankyou very much for this splendid film. I came here, my curiosity awakened, after marveling at all the typefaces on a poster for Black Metal festival here in Sweden.
this was amazing and so damn helpful for my quiz later today :) Thank you! I appreciate the obvious hard work that went into this video. And I will be recommending it to fellow students and my instructors.
Extremely well done. I'm a teacher and have been looking for a video to help explain the importance of font. This video has somehow eluded me until now. I'm so glad to have found it. Great work!
Amazing video. On a different note, i know this video is posted long before Joe Goldberg, but the resemblance of the voice and narration is mindblowing
Hmm. Roman seems to be to typography what skeuomorphism is to user interface. In the same way, Futura seems to be to typography what "Metro", "Flat", and "Material Design" is to user interface.
Very nice! I was a typesetter at the beginning of my career. Now I run into folks who can't imagine what that is! Thanks for passing on the history, and the reasons that each style gets designed and used. So often I see graphic design with so many fonts it looks like a ransom note. It's good to remember "type is meant to be read", and that good design is invisible, because it doesn't get in the way of the message. Really fun presentation!
This is great... but you left out the era of typewriters, and also typesetting metal type, and then photo type. Everyone knows metal type and linotype, but many don't know about photo typesetting and how it was a precursor to both laser printing and desktop publishing. The first computerized typesetting wasn't done on graphics terminals. It was done by computer-controlled photo-typesetters that would use fonts that were on rolls of film.
+John Kawakami Hi Jhon, I am so in love by the depth of your comment. Could you please tell me about books of the history of computerized typesetting in the first years? Thanks. This subject causes me SO MUCH curiosity!
Wow! Probably the best stop motion I never seen! You are a Boss and the subject you talk about is very interesting and very helpful to understand what typo means. Thank you!
that was an amazingly edited, well-presented video, I really appreciate the hours and weeks spent in making this informative piece. It is completely worth it. Watching it once felt like disrespecting it. Watched it thrice already.
I don't think they are astonished at the content but they are happy because it is a well made video that condenses a lot of important information in a short time. As a design teacher, I am showing this to my class ASAP.
This video was fun and informative with a spot of quirky humor - there is potential here for a series of videos on the all the other principles of design. I'd watch that!
This is one of the most beautiful TH-cam videos that I've ever seen. It all looks so effortless and it flows so well and I can't imagine the effort that went into the production of this video.
It's a great video for students and a really nice way to talk about history of typography. I'm talking about guys who declare themselves as rightful professionals in the design matter that have never gone through this topic, based on what I read on the comments.
Love this. Oh, and side note...the "dud" actually may be easier for people with dyslexia to read. It's a dud now, but Comic Sans was really popular once, and if it is proven by more than anecdote to be dyslexia friendly, I'm hoping will be popular again (cause, making things easier to read is always a plus).
That's true about fonts- I hadn't realized that. According to Wikipedia, Bi Sheng's clay tablets were hard-to-break and were soon replaced with metal. He used a "moving type" press but it was not mechanical like Gutenberg's. You're right that there are much fewer fonts in East Asian languages, because they have thousands of characters. However there's a lot of creativity and innovation in the history of typography in non-English languages which should get more attention, I think.
Your stop motion skills have left me speechless.
I teach typography and this video is straight to the point and very useful. I spend two weeks talking about History of Type and then I show your 5 minute video to my students and they say "Oh, I get it now." Thanks.
The animation is so smooth for a stop motion film! It's probably due to the smooth sound effects that match the video nicely, giving the illusion of smoothness. What an excellent piece!
"I like big fonts, of that I cannot lie. When see a skinny font it tends to hurt my eye" by Sir Write A Lot
The first printing press was made in 1041 by Bi Sheng.
He weeps a single tear whenever you think that all typography is western-European.
This was so amazing! My university class is using this as a reference to one of our lessons :) thanks so much for such a fun and informative piece!
even our college uses it for in-class teaching and references
@@aashita224 Ben should be getting paid for it, that's a bit frustrating to hand off the information to a screen whilst the teacher is actively just letting someone else inform the class. hm. My college teachers did this and i'd complain. The video itself is great, but give it as background research for personal time outside of class to look up - but teach the class don't chuck a video on and sit down.
@@nataliabennett8157 That's true, they should teach rather than someone else doing it for them. But also I would say we get a break from the normal teaching. But maybe they can use video examples rather than just someone doing to explaining. We can't really complain anywhere so stuck with what we get. lol
same
@@aashita224 he does also get payed by youtube
You may have put lots of work into that, but it was 100% worth it.
This video will still be played in decades to come to give people a good overview about the classic typefaces.
Thank you!
Thanks so much, Johanna. Much appreciated!
@@benbf Dude! Its one of mankinds best known explanatory journey to typefaces. My whole class watched it on our introduction! I aspire to be like you
This is AWESOME, thanks for making this, I'm going to share the crap out of it!
Wow!! That's stunning!! Great video & great story!!! and damn 140 hours!!! Amazing!! How much would you charge for a project like this?
And finally, Beth Mickley created Emotifont, where emotions are incorporated into the fonts giving a clear visual of the intent behind the message! It is revolutionizing the texting industry!
Ah, the amount of effort poured into it truly shows how lovely the final product is. Simple, effective and very attention keeping. Awesome job!
Years after years, this is still my favourite video on youtube
I am in awe of detail you kept in cutting out all those letters! What a great video! Thank you for all your hard work!
i'm watching this in 2021 for online classes and it feels weird looking at these old comments.
and now i see your comment in 24' and yours feel old. almost 25' tho
One of the most beautiful videos I've ever seen! Thank you so much.
I love typography, I love stop motion and I love things that are properly explained so,
*I LOVE THIS* (:
Very useful, finally I can pass my exam today.
Did anyone else watch this because of how satisfying it looks instead of wanting to learn the history of typography?
Yes! So well done. I am also very interested in type design history :)
The thumbs-downs are from Comic Sans users...
I have a typography exam in 3 hours or so and this has been most entertaining as well as informative. Thank you!❤
If you're still into typography, I have a podcast on the lives, careers, and minds of history's most influential type designers :) Would love to have you check it out!
This stop frame actually captures my students attention. And...they get it! Great work. Typography comes to life!
Thankyou very much for this splendid film. I came here, my curiosity awakened, after marveling at all the typefaces on a poster for Black Metal festival here in Sweden.
Excellent video on typography - best Ive seen fun and interesting to watch - thanks
I liked this very much
He has put a lot of effort in making this video .
this was amazing and so damn helpful for my quiz later today :) Thank you! I appreciate the obvious hard work that went into this video. And I will be recommending it to fellow students and my instructors.
Extremely well done. I'm a teacher and have been looking for a video to help explain the importance of font. This video has somehow eluded me until now. I'm so glad to have found it. Great work!
Wow! That video must have taken YEARS to make! Its amazing!
Amazing video. On a different note, i know this video is posted long before Joe Goldberg, but the resemblance of the voice and narration is mindblowing
this was amazing, the amount of effort that went into this!
What a video! This video must have taken so many hours . Great work!
Absolutely amazing
best video about fonts so far!! Thank you!
Hmm. Roman seems to be to typography what skeuomorphism is to user interface.
In the same way, Futura seems to be to typography what "Metro", "Flat", and "Material Design" is to user interface.
Futura and Helvetica are (Early) Flat.
Century Gothic is (Late) Flat.
Roboto is Metro.
Product Sans is Material.
Thank you very much, Ben. It is a wonderful start to teaching typography to students.
that was beautiful
Thank you - so wonderful! Leaves me with a smile on my face...
Thanks for the video! Really educational and entertaining.
Beautiful. Well done. This video made the Internet better.
days of reading books condensed in to 5.0 minutes
This animation is magic!!!
Thanks! This really helped with my graphics homework :)
Thank you for breaking all that terminology down! Helpful *and* beautiful
Dang dude that's a lot of hours! What editing software did you use to put it all together?
I used Final Cut Pro X, and yep, it sure was a lot of hours!
Nice! I need to learn that program.
Well your video looks great!
Ben Barrett-Forrest It's an stop motion video.
+Ben Barrett-Forrest TOTALLY WOTH IT. and thank you!
+Ben Barrett-Forrest OMG that is amazing!!!
Very nice! I was a typesetter at the beginning of my career. Now I run into folks who can't imagine what that is! Thanks for passing on the history, and the reasons that each style gets designed and used. So often I see graphic design with so many fonts it looks like a ransom note. It's good to remember "type is meant to be read", and that good design is invisible, because it doesn't get in the way of the message. Really fun presentation!
the exacto work in this tho.
This is one of the greatest videos I've ever seen.
My personal favourite is Agency FB. No reason. I just like it. That's it.
I also enjoy Agency, I feel its letters being closer really adds to it. My favorite is a font called "Dark Ages" that I found while surfing dafont.com
HatchetHaro ok bye now
My favourite is Andalus. It has this elegant, fantasy-ish appearance while still being very well legible.
Watched this on school. Amazing work. Absolutely epic
This is great... but you left out the era of typewriters, and also typesetting metal type, and then photo type. Everyone knows metal type and linotype, but many don't know about photo typesetting and how it was a precursor to both laser printing and desktop publishing. The first computerized typesetting wasn't done on graphics terminals. It was done by computer-controlled photo-typesetters that would use fonts that were on rolls of film.
this is great
+John Kawakami Hi Jhon, I am so in love by the depth of your comment. Could you please tell me about books of the history of computerized typesetting in the first years? Thanks. This subject causes me SO MUCH curiosity!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAT_%28phototypesetter%29
John Kawakami he worked hard in this he probs didn't have enough time
Amazing video!! Super informative, beautifully created and entertaining - fabulous job - thank you!!
4:43 *Do you wanna have a bad time?
Still awe inspiring after 8 years!
As acalligrapher this is so helpful to explain the influence of one on the other calligraphy and type development. Thanks
Wow! Probably the best stop motion I never seen! You are a Boss and the subject you talk about is very interesting and very helpful to understand what typo means. Thank you!
that was an amazingly edited, well-presented video, I really appreciate the hours and weeks spent in making this informative piece. It is completely worth it. Watching it once felt like disrespecting it. Watched it thrice already.
But still this guy has only 4k subs .. 😒
I don't think they are astonished at the content but they are happy because it is a well made video that condenses a lot of important information in a short time. As a design teacher, I am showing this to my class ASAP.
That ending! I know what it takes to make these traditional stop motion videos... Looks simple but those transitions like 4:45... Seamless!
This video was fun and informative with a spot of quirky humor - there is potential here for a series of videos on the all the other principles of design. I'd watch that!
Ben, this is one of the best videos I have seen about the history of type. Great! job. Very entertaining.
who knew font had a history! you learn something new everyday.
So much effort and the result is just perfect. Thank you
This is a brilliant film Sire. Hats off.
Everything from design, cutouts, to the voice over is perfect.
Splendid!
What a fun way to learn about fonts, and the history helps explain what is really quite confusing to those who are living & breathing graphic design
THANKS! we were talking about this in my Illustrator class! This made me understand it better. Easy and effective.
Being someone that has been doing graffiti for over 7 years I loved this fucking video. Super well put together man!!!!🙏🔥
This is so cool! I loved the D rolling to its side lol. And the commas taking a dive like dolphins.
Awesome video, great for me to refresh the history. Beautiful stop motion also!
Agreed! If you're looking to dive even deeper, I have a podcast on the type design history.
This is one of the most beautiful TH-cam videos that I've ever seen. It all looks so effortless and it flows so well and I can't imagine the effort that went into the production of this video.
just did a presentation about TYPO and I must say that your film is amazing
it is simple and clear.
It's a great video for students and a really nice way to talk about history of typography. I'm talking about guys who declare themselves as rightful professionals in the design matter that have never gone through this topic, based on what I read on the comments.
wow this animation gives cool colors
awesome job man. can tell so much work was involved
This video made today feel a bit more worthwhile.
I can't believe you just explained what took me about 6 years to learn in about 5 minutes. Well done. Liked and shared!
That is a lot of letters you got there. Much respect for cutting those out.
Brilliantly informative and beautifully executed 😊
Cleverly executed and informative. Thanks Ben Barrett-Forrest for this.
its so thin that i liked it so much
Wow I love they way you explain such an complex and huge concept in an easy way. Great
Wow that's a really impressive video, great content and great form. All the information i wanted, shown in a fun and clear way!
I also followed the link from Prof. Juan Cole's Informed Comment blog. Wonderful video. I learned a lot. Never knew the history. Thanks!
Liked, Shared and most of all, enjoyed this video a lot! Big thanks goes out to the makers.
This video is pure art.
Love this. Oh, and side note...the "dud" actually may be easier for people with dyslexia to read. It's a dud now, but Comic Sans was really popular once, and if it is proven by more than anecdote to be dyslexia friendly, I'm hoping will be popular again (cause, making things easier to read is always a plus).
I have to say "Wow", so inspirational. Thanks for your sharing!
I just begun to love typography working on a logo and now, after watching this I decided that this is my new passion!!
this video is amazing I like the use of stop-motion animation using paper props, bravo great job, sir.
Great video, thanks. Helps to understand fonts we use every day and to think about style consistency.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! This will not put my students to sleep, and is the perfect intro for my Typography class.
That was fabulous, Ben - really well done and informative. Kudos!
Beautiful stop-frame. Thanks for taking the time to do this sir!
Literally the exact vid I was hoping someone made. Thank you!
Creative/smooth transitions. Easy-to-digest narrative and definitions of typographic styles. Thank you!
At 3:30 I got VERY scared and feared Comic Sans Serif would appear. :D
Really liked this video. Informational and clear.
Wow. thanks for your hard work cutting down these letters, it really is inspiring!
That was absolutely phenomenal! Awesome job!
First class. Great animations and interesting content. I can't wait to share this with my class in September.
Terrific, Ben. My Graphic Design students will love it.
Loved it too! If needing some more quick ammunition on type design history, you should check out Titans of Type podcast :)
That's true about fonts- I hadn't realized that. According to Wikipedia, Bi Sheng's clay tablets were hard-to-break and were soon replaced with metal. He used a "moving type" press but it was not mechanical like Gutenberg's.
You're right that there are much fewer fonts in East Asian languages, because they have thousands of characters. However there's a lot of creativity and innovation in the history of typography in non-English languages which should get more attention, I think.