{"id":12837,"date":"2015-07-28T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12837"},"modified":"2015-07-28T07:23:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T11:23:06","slug":"why-every-meme-uses-the-same-font","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/why-every-meme-uses-the-same-font\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Every Meme Uses The Same Font"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/072815_1119_WhyEveryMem1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You may never have noticed but basically every meme uses the same font to write on a picture. Phil Edwards took a look at why:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The font is called &#8220;Impact&#8221; and was created in 1965 with hand cut metal letters.<\/li>\n<li>Because it had thick letters it was known for its legibility, even when it was superimposed onto pictures.<\/li>\n<li>The font was sold to a company that then licensed\u00a0it to Microsoft which made it a default font in its Windows products, massively increasing its distribution.<\/li>\n<li>Then Impact had its threshold moment when it was used in the genre defining meme: the &#8220;I Can Has Cheezburger&#8221; cat meme.<\/li>\n<li>Now it has become so associated with memes that any that don&#8217;t use the font just won&#8217;t look right.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the history of the font (or strictly speaking, typeface), chart its rise in old brochures and iconic memes, and other details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/7\/26\/9036993\/meme-font-impact\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/7\/26\/9036993\/meme-font-impact\">Vox<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may never have noticed but basically every meme uses the same font to write on a picture. Phil Edwards took a look at why: The font is called &#8220;Impact&#8221; and was created in 1965 with hand cut metal letters. Because it had thick letters it was known for its legibility, even when it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/072815_1119_WhyEveryMem1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12840,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12837\/revisions\/12840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}