The St. Petersburg Times: not an Impact affiliate

A casual look at the St. Petersburg Times's website, tampabay.com, suggests the newspaper may be using Impact in its online masthead.

But upon closer inspection, it fails the Impact test. Check out the discrepancies between tampabay.com's typeface (top), and the real Impact:

The big difference is in the width, height and roundedness of the counters, or white spaces, in enclosed or partially enclosed letters like p, b, m and o. Impact's counters are skinnier, taller and rounder than tampabay's typeface. They also differ in their 'a' bowls (the part that sticks out to the left): While Impact's 'a' bowl rigidly lines up with the a's finial, tampabay's curves beyond, coming dangerously close to touching the preceding letter (look how close the 'p' and 'a' in 'tampa' come to grazing each other).

Verdict: Not Impact

Impact, sharply dressed

Comedy troupe Stella used Impact in the opening credits to its tragically short-lived Comedy Central show, and stellafans.com uses the typeface extensively. 

I'll never forget the time they went turkey hunting, in camouflaged suits and ties, of course.

Impact in the news

Nice to see the classic Courier New Bold employed in the word "Toxic." 


I'm curious as to what typeface is used at the bottom. It's much more modern than Stencil, evidenced by the lack of serifs and more uniform letter thinness. 


The most important use of Stencil in my world:

Also, T.J. looks eerily like a professional ticket scalper.

Impact goes prime time

Tittle not included.

Power to the 'pacters

And for fun, count the uses of Impact on the company's website!

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Near miss in Montreal

I thought this Montreal Canadiens fan was boasting an Impactful towel during Thursday's N.H.L. Eastern Conference Finals game against the Philadelphia Flyers. But upon closer inspection, the capital Gs lack the descending hash and the Os are octagonal rather than rounded. Close call in a not-so-close game.