Impact

An ultra-condensed headline face that shipped with Windows in the late 1990s. White with a black outline, it became the typeface of the internet meme.

Designer
Geoffrey Lee
Year
1965
Where
Stephenson Blake, Sheffield
Free stand-in
Anton
In the library
3 styles
Download Anton, freeGoogle FontsImpact itself is licensed. Anton is the closest free face, free for personal and commercial work under the Open Font License.

01Set it yourself

Set in AntonLoading the face
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02Put it to work

Your words from the specimen, set in Anton in the formats a project actually needs, in the colours you picked above.

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We design identities, websites and campaigns for people who care how things feel. This is the paragraph your headline sits on, set in Karla.

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Tip. Headline in Anton, standing in for Impact, body copy in Karla. Copy the CSS from the specimen above and the headline is ready to paste into your site.

03Every character

AU+0041 · Anton 400
72pxImpact
48pxImpact
32pxImpact
20pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 1234567890.
14pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 1234567890.

04The free stand-in: Anton

Why Anton. Ultra-condensed heavy grotesque with almost no counter space. Impact itself is a licensed typeface, so everything on this page is set in Anton, which is free to use on the web and in print.

Anton, on its own. Ultra-condensed sans with almost no counter space. A poster face that fills whatever box you give it.

If Impact is installed on your computer, an A/B key appears in the specimen above so you can compare the two.

Download Anton, freeGoogle Fonts

05The styles built on Impact

AcidOpen the style →DreamcoreOpen the style →Brutalist ArchitectureOpen the style →

06What it pairs with

DeconstructedAntonSet in Karla underneath: the body copy a headline in Anton needs to sit on.Try it in the type lab →

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