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@JaneXemylixa21 күн бұрын
To me Arial looks like Helvetica that has been ordered "at ease"
@jimmypockrus7725Ай бұрын
I would think Arial would be chosen so that it would appear near the top of any alphabetical list of fonts. Who's going to scroll all the way down to the S for Sonoran Sans.
@middleagedhackАй бұрын
You know what, you're right!
@JohnDlugoszАй бұрын
Of course, you didn't have enough fonts to need to scroll at all.
@MrRicmeme23 күн бұрын
@@middleagedhack I find some sort of logical connection between the original name Sonoran (related to Sonos - sound?) and Arial (that which sounds like an Aria - a musical composition for a strong soloist usually with an airy quality ie in a high pitched register)
@sunnowoАй бұрын
Damn, I would've thought your channel was wayy bigger. A tad surprised this is less than 200 subs! Very good video, you'll grow this in no time
@JohnDlugoszАй бұрын
6:50 Microsoft did not design the TrueType standard! It's licensed from Apple.
@FleatoАй бұрын
my main gripe is capital 'i' like. it's jsut a stick and I constantly get it confused with lowercase' L' ................ l I, go ahead. tell me which is which at a glance.
@LuiKang04328 күн бұрын
I thought he was gonna talk about Arial the Little Mermaid being older and weirder, like she's some kind of ancient eldritch horror or something. I'm glad it wasn't that 😅😅
@OneWingedNoteАй бұрын
why do I love learning about fonts and typesetting so much
@Captain_Wet_Beard18 күн бұрын
You make excellent stuff, I hope you find a larger viewer base in the near future!
@Alansshows27 күн бұрын
Fun fact: If you mute the video, it looks like a man attempting to fly by constantly flapping his hands.
@jimgerth6854Ай бұрын
Very interesting story and nicely explained, just gained a subscriber :)
@nicojanАй бұрын
Same here!
@Not_InfoАй бұрын
I'm here at 252 views. Something tells me this is gonna become a hit.
@DJJonPattrsn22Ай бұрын
Thank you for the detailed & interesting history!
@IstaraxАй бұрын
Great video! I think you could have showed the examples a bit longer and maybe even a bit more of them. But the story was great. Good luck on your channel!
@klikkolee25 күн бұрын
for me, the Gil sans "R" looked much more elegant and overall better than both the Helvetica and Arial "R". the Helvetica "R" felt very brick-ish, which is pretty inelegant to me. The Arial "R" looks stretched horizontally.
@charleslafon3698Ай бұрын
I've always hated Arial (and loved Helvetica) but could never put a finger on why. Thank you for justifying my pre existing preferences
@SolarGranulation24 күн бұрын
Very interesting information but man do I disagree about which R is more graceful!
@bucyrus500029 күн бұрын
Any Bahnschrift stans out there?
@captainkeyboard100718 күн бұрын
I like Helvetica and Univers better than Arial. I believe that Arial is an imitation font and not authentic. In spite of that fact, I use Arial sparingly, but Helvetica and Neue Haas Grotesk fonts some more before I would "look at" the Arial font. Neue Haas Grotesk looks similar to Helvetica in most respects. It is found in Microsoft Windows. I find that the letters uppercase G and R and the number 1 in the Arial font are unattractive, and boring like blurred lines. I do notice on KZbin that the Arial font appears as numbers on freight railcars. Your stories are terrific!
@middleagedhack18 күн бұрын
Thank you so much for the compliment!
@captainkeyboard100713 күн бұрын
@@middleagedhack You are welcome. The compliment is intended to be the truth to be told. Typeset work is another interest of mine like microcomputer technology. Happy Writing!👍
@herzogsbuick23 күн бұрын
i don't think i'm going to like, subscribe or comment. ah goddamnit! :-) enjoyed it, subscribed and liked. a critique is the intro length: i think you should pare it down. this is coming from someone who just ruined a perfectly good new part while installing it on my band's van, so, ya know -- caveat emptor. looking forward to more! greetings from alaska
@middleagedhack22 күн бұрын
Thanks! I’ve been thinking of cutting that intro down, your comment has convinced me! I have a few videos in the pipeline already so look for a shortened one in a few weeks!
@eow4317Ай бұрын
I can’t be the only one who thought this would be about the little mermaid
@fresh_pastaАй бұрын
Ariel?
@JamaicaWhiteManАй бұрын
Not quite the ugliest, although close to it. But I hate all those sans-Serif fonts. Give me a Times New Roman every time.