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Also known as Impact font, Impact typeface

typeface designed by Geoffrey Lee

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Impact font family - Typography | Microsoft Learn

Typographic info for the Impact font family

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Geoffrey Lee designed this face, first issued in 1965 by the famous Sheffield foundry, Stephenson Blake. The mid-1960s marked the height of a fashion for bold condensed faces that probably originated when Paris Match cut up prints of the Schmalfette Grotesk font, which had been drawn by Walter Haettenschweiler. Because Impact was less condensed than Schmalfette, designers often used the two fonts together as companion faces. Even without Schmalfette, you can use Impact for, well, impact. Version 2.35 - This version includes some minor table updates, but no new glyphs. Version 2.30 - Impact version 2.30 extends the WGL4 version to include the euro currency symbol. This typeface is also available within Office applications. For more information visit this page. Want to try using Ask Learn to clarify or guide you through this topic? Ask Learn is an AI assistant that can answer questions, clarify concepts, and define terms using trusted Microsoft documentation.

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