Nasty Impact

[dtw]

...There's an idea for a design challenge: "Design an 'Impact Italic' that doesn't look bad"... :D

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Ever since I chose to block pop-ups, my toaster's stopped working.

[Si_Daniels]

It's an interesting question - should bundled fonts come in the four basic styles? At a more basic level would true italics for Impact or Comic Sans improve the typographic landscape or just encourage people to use them more?

[Nick Shinn]

should bundled fonts come in the four basic styles?

How long have you been with Microsoft Si? :-)

[Don McCahill]

> should bundled fonts come in the four basic styles?

Many people here will say fonts should not be bundled.

I like it when fonts come in all four weights. The most overly used bundled font is probably Zapf Chancery, which most people think is a script, since it was bundled without the romans and the italics in other weights. It's a fine font, if you can avoid overuse of the italic weight everyone is so familiar with.

But I got one of the Shelley fonts bundled in an Adobe product once. There just isn't a roman version, and it would be silly to think of one.

Display fonts, traditionally, come solely or in incomplete families.

[Nick Shinn]

There just isn’t a roman version, and it would be silly to think of one.

Right, not a very useful idea--but that kind of thing has been done.
The roman of Frank Heine's Dalliance was reverse-engineered from an italic script.

[litherland]

For some reason I remembered this thread from long ago and came back to look at it again.

Nick Shinn said:
Only trouble is, it could prove difficult to find an alternative with suitable, er, impact, especially considering Impact’s barely-protruding descenders. Suggestions, anyone?

I wonder why Block Berthold wasn't mentioned. Also, I'm very enamored of TeslaDynamo at the moment. Don't have it yet, alas, but hope to soon.

[phrostbyte64]

I know these are not in the same league as Impact, but I get a lot of use out of them in similar situations. I also know for a fact that they are not over used.

http://www.thefontry.com/narrowblockpak1all

[ChuckGroth]

there are at least three times i've used IMPACT, and each time. i thought it was perfect. this could easily be a stronger indictment on me than the typeface. but still-- i'm all for throwing a face out there into the public square, and seeing if it can come away without charges of heresy.

[cuttlefish]

But... but... what about the LOLcats?