Hitsplat

Hitsplat is a term used to refer to the damage icon appearing above a player, an NPC, or a monster, while in combat. A hitsplat usually results in the reduction of life points. A splat of disease doesn't result in a loss of life points but a loss of skill points. All hitsplats have a number in the centre, which determines the number of life points or levels in a skill that you have either lost or gained. Any hitsplats with magnitude at least 100 (a three-digit number) will make use of the wide hit splat, otherwise the narrow splat will be used. Most hits use the Arial font, while a player's maxed hit uses a special font to put emphasis on it.

Types of hitsplat
The colour of the hitsplat usually gives an indication of the type of damage and the number inside the amount of damage dealt. Hitsplat depicts the magnitude affection of an attack, effect, however a block or miss will always induce a 0, but the randomization result is never shown. Please notice the magenta splats do not happen outside dungeoneering floors, and using anything to heal outside currently do not yield any hitsplats. Whenever a heavy damage was dealt before the hitsplat were updated, the same splat background was used (though colour was different) and the number was possible to overlap the splat edge.

Trivia

 * In the Damage Control Developer Blog new hit marks system was introduced, and was released on 14 December 2010. These were also seen before in the RuneScape Developer Blog: Void Knights Series blog.
 * The font used in the golden "maxed" hitsplat is the same that is used in the "You are here" and "Your marker" signs on the world map. Previously, the font was used in almost all of the login interface, but after the lobby update it was practically gone, seen only on the map and some obscure interfaces, so this update can be seen as marking the return of that font.
 * The new hitsplats were announced in the December 2010 Behind the Scenes article.
 * When another player hits a golden coloured hit while using melee, the right side of the bar is cut off and there is another left end on the right side.
 * It's still possible for hitsplats to overlap especially at crowded areas.