Arial is older (and weirder) than you think 

To me Arial looks like Helvetica that has been ordered "at ease"

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.

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

6:50 Microsoft did not design the TrueType standard! It's licensed from Apple.

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.

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 😅😅

why do I love learning about fonts and typesetting so much

You make excellent stuff, I hope you find a larger viewer base in the near future!

Fun fact: If you mute the video, it looks like a man attempting to fly by constantly flapping his hands.

Very interesting story and nicely explained, just gained a subscriber :)

I'm here at 252 views. Something tells me this is gonna become a hit.

Thank you for the detailed & interesting history!

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!

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.

I've always hated Arial (and loved Helvetica) but could never put a finger on why. Thank you for justifying my pre existing preferences

Very interesting information but man do I disagree about which R is more graceful!

Any Bahnschrift stans out there?

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 RU-vid that the Arial font appears as numbers on freight railcars. Your stories are terrific!

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

I can’t be the only one who thought this would be about the little mermaid

Not quite the ugliest, although close to it. But I hate all those sans-Serif fonts. Give me a Times New Roman every time.

ARIAL ROCKS! Comic Sans stinks!