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: Free alternatives to Impact 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

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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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@Hamaas979

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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@Kevin459

Vernon Adams has a very nice alternative, named Anton: 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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@BetL875

Oswald is a good alternative too:

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@Samaraweera207

It's not the same design, but League Gothic is a good free bold grotesque sans that may give you the feel you want.

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@Pierce403

Coda looks very similar to me, however it is much more vertically condensed.



If you un-scrunch it, it looks much more similar:



Try it out

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@Shakeerah625

The best alternative I know of, that is free for commercial use is Bebas Neue.

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