32 Trashy And Distorted Fonts For Your Next Grungy Design
Over the past couple month/years we’ve seen grungy-looking websites and designs popping all over the place (I much prefer that over the glossy web 2.0 look). Of course using patterns and textured backgrounds can help give a website a dirty and grungy feel, but let’s not forget about typography. While most of the fonts on this list can’t really be used for website copy and articles, they can certainly be used for logos and headings or other types of graphics.
Let us know which ones you like best in the comment section! :)
Hawaii Lover ↓
Hawaii Killer ↓
Jamaistevie ↓
Ginga ↓
Dirty English ↓
Jo Wrote A Lovesong ↓
Fail ↓
Agressive Angry Baby Killer ↓
El Font Brush ↓
Dark Flame ↓
Bruised ↓
Grunge ↓
Pulse Sans Virgin ↓
Docteur Atomic ↓
Phorssa ↓
Fluoxetine ↓
Staubiges Vergnügen ↓
Insert Your Name Here ↓
Horros ↓
Broken Record ↓
Trashco ↓
A Bite ↓
Ascent 2 Stardom ↓
Defused ↓
Cocaine Sans ↓
Screamo ↓
Dead Secretary ↓
Jellyka Evan & Estrya ↓
Got Heroin? ↓
Chic Decay ↓
Splinter 2 ↓
Cocaine Nosejob ↓
Your Turn To Talk
I hope you liked this post! Please feel free to share you favorite trashy and grungy typefaces with the rest of us!
About the author:
Jon Phillips is the founder and owner of SpyreStudios and the co-founder of MediaLoot. Jon is a designer, developer, typography lover and musician.
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August 22nd, 2009
Great! And thank you so much for making the fonts available.
I’m loving them.
Audrey
August 22nd, 2009
Very nice collection. Thanks!
August 22nd, 2009
A bite
August 22nd, 2009
Love love love love them. Thanks so much!
August 23rd, 2009
Thanks, i didn’t know them !
August 23rd, 2009
Some of these are ok, but id rather take a regular font and rough it up, that way you dont have letters that look the same like two T’s or two E’s that look exactly the same.
August 23rd, 2009
Great list! Thanks for compiling it! One of my favorite grunge fonts is Cold Coffee by Fontorama.
August 23rd, 2009
The A Bite image links to the Hawaii Font.
August 23rd, 2009
Thanks for sharing such a nice collection!! I love them all.
August 23rd, 2009
Bruised is amazing!
August 23rd, 2009
These fonts are fantastic! Well done.
August 23rd, 2009
you guys should have included Tibetan BeefGarden in this one.
August 23rd, 2009
The problem with these is that they can be used only in display situations, in brief bursts — basically to get attention, and that’s it. Quite often, the artistry of creating the font destroys the readability, and the eye fatigues quickly trying to decipher it.
August 24th, 2009
interesting fonts! working in the design industry i keep requiring newer ideas and designs for work. these are helpful. thanks!
August 24th, 2009
Awesome collection thanks.
August 24th, 2009
Broken Record is written in Horos and not itself (the ‘O’ is the giveaway). BTW, but thanks for the links.
August 25th, 2009
Wow Thats a big list,
have used Hawaii Killer alot Of time here i got alot new ones
August 25th, 2009
Oh… i have so many of these fonts it’s silly! I second Harper though – they’re great for a quick, HEY LOOK AT ME, burst on a piece, or a highly stylised header font perhaps, but realistically they can’t be used for long pieces. My favourites are trashco and hawaii lover (though cocaine sans comes close)
thanks for sharing!
August 25th, 2009
Incredible nice fonts… They are very beautiful and useful for web design or orhers
August 25th, 2009
Thanks for the great fonts, I’ll definitely make use of the defused font.
August 26th, 2009
nice collection, is big inspiration , thnx.
August 27th, 2009
Thank you Jon! AWESOME Collection!
August 29th, 2009
I liked all except the topmost five. Where is Bleeding Cowboys?
August 30th, 2009
nothing says trashy like a ransom note font or spray paint. excellent.
August 31st, 2009
I’m with the guy of the last comment. This grounge stuff rocks.
September 13th, 2009
Awesome grunge collection! I’ve need some newer trashy fonts for quite some time now, thanks.
September 17th, 2009
Thanks for the fonts Jon!
I’ve used one with the new “RIFFIN’ IT OUT” with Mr.Zee banner on our radio station.
Thanks a bunch and keep up the great work!
September 17th, 2009
Sorry,
Forgot to mention i used the “TRASHCO” one.. :)
November 27th, 2009
Awesome list of resources! Thank you for sharing.
I would just like to add one more set of typography resources and that is the forum of http://www.pilo.me
It is a private typography forum with an unbelievable amount of free fonts, premium fonts and exclusive typefaces. I think it was voted the best typography forum of 2009. If you are a font lover/addict, check it out. Like I said though, it is either private or invite only. I have never seen a typography site like it with all it has to offer. Anyhow, check it out, pilo.me
Anyhow, great article, I definitely will be referring to these time to time.
December 14th, 2009
Those are some awesome fonts!
January 8th, 2010
Great article, thx :)
Also some nice free grunge fonts http://www.fonts2u.com/category.html?id=42
January 16th, 2010
Great grunge fonts i love that Agressive Angry Baby Killer font even though it has a crazy name haha.
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