Geoffrey L. Lee

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Geoffrey L. Lee English designer (b. Wimbledon, 1929, d. 2005) of Impact (1965, Stephenson Blake: an extra bold sans now available from many companies, including Agfa/Monotype, Ascender [image], Linotype, Monotype, Adobe, URW++ and Microsoft), Stephenson Blake's penultimate metal typeface, produced while Lee was Type Director and Design Group Head of Pembertons Advertising. Impact Wide (2002) was developed from the designer's original drawings for the production of Impact metal type, with many detail changes because of the density of the letters. These include the restoration of the bevelled I and j dots of the original. Digital remakes of Impact abound. The SoftMaker font I770 Sans is certainly not bad. One can also check Dekas (2012, Qalib Abassov, Open Font Library: this is a strange case, as the site attributes this free typeface to Geoffrey Lee). He also made Camden (1999, with Michael Lynch) for specific use in the Long Melford Millennium Book. It was based on the types used in Camden's Remaines concerning Britaine published in London in 1638. FontShop link. Linotype link. Klingspor link. View some digital versions of Impact.	EXTERNAL LINKS Geoffrey L. Lee [Designer info] Monotype link Klingspor Museum page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Type design in the United Kingdom ⦿