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 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.
@@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!
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.
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.
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 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.
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 one of the most beautiful RUclips 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.
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.
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!
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!
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).
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!
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!
Great summary of the milestones of face-development . . . really appreciated, I'm a journeyman-typographer by trade (no longer practiced commercially) . . . cheers JD
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!
As a graphic designer I find this fascinating. I didn't know about the different names for the kinds of serif fonts. You've done an amazing job on this. Thanks!
Wonderful video! If you ever want to do a follow-on, covering the computer era, be sure to mention Mike Parker and Roger Black. Mike was one of the founders of Bitstream, a company that did more than any other to digitize existing fonts and license those fonts to everyone, and Roger was the person who used the new technology to create stunning new styles and layouts.
I thought that all of the forms of writing were created when we invented computers. Your artistic ability to show this subject in a fun way captivated me for many other reasons also. I now am going to love choosing different typography fonts for my papers I will write this year.
My teacher recommended us this video and it was so clear and easy to remember! I retained my information from those books and everything became clearer! Cutting those letters must've been painful but it's so worth it.
Great recommendation here! If you're interested in diving a little deeper, I host a podcast on the lives, careers, work, and minds of history's most influential type designers :)
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.
thank you for making this video, it's fun to watch! it could really tells how much time and effort you have put on it, by all those preparation. nice work
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.
We are still using this video today for assignments and I just want to say thanks for making it so much more entertaining then I expected for a school thing
Your stop motion skills have left me speechless.
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 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.
"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
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
Ah, the amount of effort poured into it truly shows how lovely the final product is. Simple, effective and very attention keeping. Awesome job!
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!
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!
This is AWESOME, thanks for making this, I'm going to share the crap out of it!
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.
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!
Years after years, this is still my favourite video on youtube
Wow!! That's stunning!! Great video & great story!!! and damn 140 hours!!! Amazing!! How much would you charge for a project like this?
So much effort and the result is just perfect. Thank you
One of the most beautiful videos I've ever seen! Thank you so much.
I liked this very much
He has put a lot of effort in making this video .
This stop frame actually captures my students attention. And...they get it! Great work. Typography comes to life!
What a video! This video must have taken so many hours . Great work!
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.
This animation is magic!!!
Very useful, finally I can pass my exam today.
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
Excellent video on typography - best Ive seen fun and interesting to watch - thanks
What a great informational video - thank you for posting!
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.
Amazing video!! Super informative, beautifully created and entertaining - fabulous job - thank you!!
this was amazing, the amount of effort that went into this!
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!
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!!!
Still awe inspiring after 8 years!
The thumbs-downs are from Comic Sans users...
This is one of the most beautiful RUclips 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.
Wow! That video must have taken YEARS to make! Its amazing!
I love typography, I love stop motion and I love things that are properly explained so,
*I LOVE THIS* (:
Thanks for the video! Really educational and entertaining.
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.
Absolutely amazing
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!
Thanks! This really helped with my graphics homework :)
Wow that's a really impressive video, great content and great form. All the information i wanted, shown in a fun and clear way!
that was beautiful
wow this animation gives cool colors
days of reading books condensed in to 5.0 minutes
Everything from design, cutouts, to the voice over is perfect.
Splendid!
the exacto work in this tho.
Watched this on school. Amazing work. Absolutely epic
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.
That is a lot of letters you got there. Much respect for cutting those out.
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
Thank you - so wonderful! Leaves me with a smile on my face...
4:43 *Do you wanna have a bad time?
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).
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.
i'm watching this in 2021 for online classes and it feels weird looking at these old comments.
Creative/smooth transitions. Easy-to-digest narrative and definitions of typographic styles. Thank you!
Thank you for breaking all that terminology down! Helpful *and* beautiful
I can't believe you just explained what took me about 6 years to learn in about 5 minutes. Well done. Liked and shared!
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!
Brilliantly informative and beautifully executed 😊
As acalligrapher this is so helpful to explain the influence of one on the other calligraphy and type development. Thanks
Beautiful stop-frame. Thanks for taking the time to do this sir!
That was fabulous, Ben - really well done and informative. Kudos!
just did a presentation about TYPO and I must say that your film is amazing
it is simple and clear.
This video made today feel a bit more worthwhile.
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!
I just begun to love typography working on a logo and now, after watching this I decided that this is my new passion!!
That ending! I know what it takes to make these traditional stop motion videos... Looks simple but those transitions like 4:45... Seamless!
Great summary of the milestones of face-development . . . really appreciated, I'm a journeyman-typographer by trade (no longer practiced commercially) . . . cheers JD
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
The hard work done for this amazing stop-motion is really visible to the audience. Really brilliant job.
Beautiful. Well done. This video made the Internet better.
So beautifully well explained made👌
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!
As a graphic designer I find this fascinating. I didn't know about the different names for the kinds of serif fonts. You've done an amazing job on this. Thanks!
best video about fonts so far!! Thank you!
That was absolutely phenomenal! Awesome job!
its so thin that i liked it so much
I'd love to watch this animation forever.
I love this! Showing my students!
I do totally agree that it's an excellent video to share in academic context and should be shared ASAP in every graphic design career classroom.
awesome job man. can tell so much work was involved
Wow. thanks for your hard work cutting down these letters, it really is inspiring!
This is one of the greatest videos I've ever seen.
Cleverly executed and informative. Thanks Ben Barrett-Forrest for this.
THANKS! we were talking about this in my Illustrator class! This made me understand it better. Easy and effective.
Wonderful video!
If you ever want to do a follow-on, covering the computer era, be sure to mention Mike Parker and Roger Black. Mike was one of the founders of Bitstream, a company that did more than any other to digitize existing fonts and license those fonts to everyone, and Roger was the person who used the new technology to create stunning new styles and layouts.
I thought that all of the forms of writing were created when we invented computers. Your artistic ability to show this subject in a fun way captivated me for many other reasons also. I now am going to love choosing different typography fonts for my papers I will write this year.
Thank you so much to create this ! It's really interesting and the motion format is really great.
love it! Great typography video!
My teacher recommended us this video and it was so clear and easy to remember! I retained my information from those books and everything became clearer! Cutting those letters must've been painful but it's so worth it.
Great recommendation here! If you're interested in diving a little deeper, I host a podcast on the lives, careers, work, and minds of history's most influential type designers :)
who knew font had a history! you learn something new everyday.
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 .. 😒
Ben, this is one of the best videos I have seen about the history of type. Great! job. Very entertaining.
Great video, thanks. Helps to understand fonts we use every day and to think about style consistency.
This is a brilliant film Sire. Hats off.
thank you for making this video, it's fun to watch!
it could really tells how much time and effort you have put on it, by all those preparation. nice work
Being someone that has been doing graffiti for over 7 years I loved this fucking video. Super well put together man!!!!🙏🔥
I have to say "Wow", so inspirational. Thanks for your sharing!
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.
We are still using this video today for assignments and I just want to say thanks for making it so much more entertaining then I expected for a school thing
Agreed! If you're interested in diving deeper, I host a podcast on history's most influential type designers :)