How This Single 'M' Almost Ruined a US Presidency
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This video examines historical document forgeries and explains how font detectives and typography experts use letterforms, typefaces, and metadata to expose them.
From the video
Answers: How do font detectives catch document forgeries?
- document forgery
- typography and fonts
- font detectives
- Hitler Diaries
- Panama Papers
- Operation Sledgehammer
- Killian Memos
- proportional vs monospaced fonts
- Calibri font history
- Times New Roman font history
What it concludes
- The Gothic letters on the Hitler Diaries spelled a Gothic F rather than an AH because the forger confused Gothic letterforms.
- The Calibri font used in the Panama Papers trust document was not commercially available in 2006 when the document was supposedly signed, exposing it as a fake.
- Documents related to Operation Sledgehammer in Turkey used Calibri font references in their hex code despite being dated 2003, before Calibri existed.
- The Killian Memos regarding George W. Bush used proportional Times New Roman font features, such as proportional M's and character kerning, that were impossible on 1970s typewriters.
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