Times New Roman - the curious history of the world's most popular font

Has it ever occurred to you that one of the most ubiquitous fonts you read today, might actually have its roots in the 15th century? Colleen Curran, a research student with the King's Department of History explores the Times New Roman font through its journey in ancient manuscripts to becoming the game changer for a prolific newspaper of the 20th century through till now.

[fluffygirl]

Uh, but the PDF version is not set in Arial or a sans-serif font? It's obviously a serif font.

[sammiches]

This is surprisingly good quality with so few views. I guess there's not much to say about the font many of us learned English in.

[dmnd]

Me ha sido muy útil este video para mi investigación sobre la fuente Times New Roman.

[julievanlohnnevadalearning]

Hi, I would like to use this video in a high school graphic arts course, but I can't find any licensing information in the King's College profile and I don't even know where to start on the College's website. Can you help me out and point me in the right direction? Thank you.

[misan]

oh wow, the coincidence
i applied to study english here and i stumble upon this video

[fluffygirl]

Wow, whoever cut this video really doesn't know what they are doing. What she says and what is shown in the video is completely out of sync and the video is basically dada