Have you ever asked how the most commonly used meme font is called? I can give you the answer. The font is called Impact. Impact is included in the “core fonts for the web” package and has been distributed with Microsoft Windows since Windows 98, which means you should have the font already installed if you use this any Microsoft operating system. The very thick strokes of the Impact font are aimed, as the name suggests, to “impact” or in other words to stand out. The Impact font is commonly used for funny Internet memes like the Lolcat images.

If you want to create similar memes, you can use the Impact font to add a caption to your images, you could also use other fonts but Impact is the most used font for memes as said. The messages on memes are very often completely written in white capital letters and there is often a stroke effect or let me say a small black border added around the text. In this tutorial you will learn how to create memes with Photoshop. I will use a photo of my cat Shyna to explain how you can do it…

First we should open the image in Photoshop. Here is how we put a caption on the photo. We can either press “T” on our keyboard which would activate our “Horizontal Type Tool” and then we just have to click on our image to place the text or we just click on the “Type Tool Symbol” in Photoshop and click on our photo to place a text…

If we have done this, then we just need to choose the Impact font and we should be sure that the text color is white. Also we can already change the font size if we like. After we have done the settings, we start to type in the caption we want to use. Most memes are completely written in capitals if we want to do it the same way…

But we now need this black border around the text like in all the other funny memes of the internet. We have to right-click on our new text layer and a menu pops up where we choose and click on “Blending Options…”.

In the opened Layer Style Window, we just activate and click on “Stroke”. This will paint the mentioned commonly used black borders around our text. I think it is always standard on black but we can proof this in the settings windows there. What we also could do is controlling the thickness of the border around the text. I think it is standard on 3 pixels and for my taste not enough. I change the value sometimes to 5 pixels. But this is just a matter of taste. Once we did the settings here, we can press ok…

What we now still could do is moving our text. Just click on the text layer again and move the text until you feel it fits in the image. Some meme photos do even have black borders, I wrote also a guide how to add black borders to your images, in case this is interesting for you too.

That is all. Hope this small guide is a help for those who want to create their own memes with Photoshop too. 🙂

If you like to read more about internet memes, do also check out my article why internet memes are so popular, or read more about Impact the most popular meme font. If you want to create memes in no time, check out the list of online meme generators.

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