Typophile

BBC History of the world - from serif to sans

Sandro Dujmenovic

I can see Gotham as a sans, but cant clearly tell the serifs and slab serif.

Anyone have an idea?

Atwe

Caslon for the serif.

Lex Kominek

I think "OF" might be Clarendon.

"STORY" looks like it might be Times New Roman morphing into Clarendon, and "THE" might be clarendon morphing into Gotham, or there might be an intermediate, unbracketed slab (hard to tell with just those three letters).

- Lex

William Berkson

The A is not Caslon, and I don't think the rest is either.

Jason Campbell

The OR are Times Roman, but the ST are not. Not sure what they are though.

Marc Oxborrow

HIST is Bembo.

Taiwanese

That Slab looks like close to Caecilia LT Standard’s Heavy.

Captured from web.archive.org on 14 Oct 2013. view this capture