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nicerdicer@feddit.de to Videos@lemmy.world · 3 years ago

I promise this story about fonts is interesting

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I promise this story about fonts is interesting

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nicerdicer@feddit.de to Videos@lemmy.world · 3 years ago
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Why do words look they way they do? That was the question that kicked this project off. I pulled at the thread, and it turns out the answer was way deeper th...

cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/6296251

A 30 minute video about the origin and evolution of fonts - or technically correctly: typefaces

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      You seem to have some knowledge about the origin of letters. A couple of months ago I posted a link to a youtube video which explains how the months got their names:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9iOt48bTw4&list=PL5x1QB-VRuDtHCWcuSx0DgJr2mnuNXkSB&index=4

      This channel has very interesting videos about the ethymological origins of different things. It’s worth watching. Also, there is a video in this channel where the “evolution” of the alphabet is explained.

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    That was actually really interesting - I though if only to discover where the names came from, but it was more than that

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