Like it or not, Impact is now associated with image macros and memes throughout the web. As the Impact font itself is not free to distribute, I was wondering if there were similar fonts available under more permissive licenses? I haven't been able to find one that felt right enough.
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Vernon Adams has a very nice alternative, named Anton: https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Anton
As he said in other page: "see Google's PR for the Chromebook notebooks that used Anton, big and bright".
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2Anton can also be found in the site of Vernon Adams. Anton was extended from a single bold style into a family named Antonio. "Antonio is a 'refined' version of the Anton Font. Anton is a single weight web font, designed specifically for larger display, headline and 'banner' use. Antonio extends the Anton design to include more weights and introduces refinements to the design that makes it also suitable for use in smaller headings, menus and 'buttons' etc.".– GantonCommented Jan 20, 2016 at 19:18
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1that kerning on oswald... youd expect more from a font that google promotes– oldboyCommented May 17, 2019 at 8:10
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I've just updated the image because Oswald looks better nowadays– GantonCommented May 18, 2019 at 5:58
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there was only 3 weights for antonio eh? light, regular, bold?– oldboyCommented May 19, 2019 at 0:18
It's not the same design, but League Gothic is a good free bold grotesque sans that may give you the feel you want.
answered Sep 2, 2013 at 2:42
Coda looks very similar to me, however it is much more vertically condensed.
If you un-scrunch it, it looks much more similar:
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1The author of this font also has fonts that look basically identical to lots of classic fonts like Clarendon, Frutiger, Rockwell, Eurostile, Trade Gothic, and lots more. It looks like he takes old fonts and creates new versions of them under an open license. Commented Aug 26, 2014 at 1:19
The best alternative I know of, that is free for commercial use is Bebas Neue.
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1That looks nice, but I'm looking for one that allows for redistribution. Thanks, though!– Mr. SCommented Aug 31, 2013 at 21:07
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Oswald is a good alternative too:
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4Oswald appears to be another revival of the same typeface as League Gothic, but in a less finished state (some of the stroke widths are uneven and non-symmetical, see "g", "s", "$", and "&"). In fact that uneven "s" is quite bad - once you've seen it, you can't un-see it. Commented Sep 4, 2013 at 1:13
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It is worth noting, that although it's still under copyright by Microsoft, it is still available for free (free beer, not free speech) in the Ubuntu non-free repository in the package ttf-mscorefonts-installer.
sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
After which it will be available in any Linux applications
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3So it isn't free? The question specifically asks for an alternative because of the licence, not because it isn't accessible.– CaiCommented Aug 31, 2016 at 6:56
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i never understood that phrase 'free beer, not free speech' can u explain?– oldboyCommented May 17, 2019 at 8:14
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@user2230470, 'free speech' isn't an absolute. You can't legally lie or be abusive - it's complicated. 'Free beer' is what it is. You get a beer, drink it and don't pay. Were you drawn to this answer because you and IQAndreas has similar profile images? :-)– WolffCommented May 18, 2019 at 9:22
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1@Wolff OMG!! what a coinckydink. thats funny. oh wow he even programs too. anyways thanks for the explanation. it makes a lot more sense now. heard that so many times over the years n never really understood the metaphor– oldboyCommented May 19, 2019 at 0:20
Bebas, League Gothic, Oswald, Coluna. Any bold and condensed fonts work.
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Hello Eliot, most of the fonts you mention are already mentioned in previous answers. Also, this question is 8 years old, so I'm not exactly sure your answer is helping anyone anymore. Please consult the tour and help center to get to know the site and how it works.– PieBie ♦Commented Mar 1, 2021 at 9:44