Impact (typeface)

Impact (typeface)

Infobox font
name = Impact


style = Sans-serif
prop = Proportional
date = 1965
creator = Geoffrey Lee
foundry = Stephenson Blake|

Impact is a realist sans-serif typeface designed by Geoffrey Lee in 1965 and released by the Stephenson Blake foundry. Its ultra-thick strokes, compressed letterspacing, and minimal interior counterform are specifically aimed, as its name suggests, to "impact." Impact has a high x-height, reaching nearly to three-quarters the capital line. Ascenders are short, and descenders even shorter. The face is intended for headlines and has only limited use in text applications. The face bears comparison with the similarly designed, but narrower, typeface Haettenschweiler, the Letraset face Compacta, and the Linotype face Helvetica Compressed.

Impact is one of the Core fonts for the Web distributed with Microsoft Windows. It is also one of the most common fonts used in television. This is partially because it is easily readable and more interesting than Arial, Times New Roman and other common fonts, and also because it is free with Windows, allowing a television production company to create graphics on any PC, without having to purchase a font.

ee also

*Typeface
*Sans-serif
*Serif
*List of typefaces


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