Impact (font)
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| font | Impact |
| category | Sans serif |
| Font designer | Geoffrey Lee |
| Type foundry | Monotype |
| Creation | 1965 |
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Impact (Engl. Effect , impression ) is a sans serif font from the font family Impact, which was designed in 1965 by Geoffrey Lee and published by the Stephenson Blake foundry and disseminated. It is the Registered Trade Mark of Stephenson Blake Holdings Ltd. The font rights are owned by Monotype Corporation.
With its extremely thick lines and tight letters, this font stands out in the running text and is mainly, if not exclusively, suitable for headings and is rarely used in texts. The name alludes to the effect the font is designed to have on the reader, namely to make an impression, catch the reader's attention and convey that what is written matters. In addition, Impact is characterized by a particularly large x-height , which extends to just a quarter below the H-line. The font was significantly influenced by the design of the narrower Haettenschweiler font and has similarities to the Compacta font and the Helvetica Advertisement font .
In July 2010, Ascender Corp released an improved version of the font. This included expanded Open Type features and was designed by Terrance Weinzierl and Steve Matteson. The update to 2.35 brought the current version of the font.
The Impact is supplied with Windows and Internet Explorer version 3 or higher and is part of the Core fonts for the Web . Impact has a demonstrable influence to this day, for example on the logo of St. Pancras train station in London and the logo of the Internet Movie Database . It is also often used as the lettering for memes .
Classification of the script
Hans Peter Willberg would classify it as static grotesque in his classification matrix.
Similar fonts
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Impact. Website of the software and hardware manufacturer Microsoft, accessed on March 17, 2014 .
- ↑ Impact - Version 2.30. Website of the software and hardware manufacturer Microsoft, accessed on March 17, 2014 .
- ↑ Ascender Releases New OpenType Font Pack for Microsoft Office 2010. PRWeb press agency, July 6, 2010, accessed March 17, 2014 .
- ↑ Stephenson, Blake Today. British Letterpress, accessed March 17, 2014 .
- ^ Font classification according to Willberg. Retrieved December 8, 2019 .