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!
Great! And thank you so much for making the fonts available.
I’m loving them.
Audrey
Very nice collection. Thanks!
A bite
Love love love love them. Thanks so much!
Thanks, i didn’t know them !
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.
Great list! Thanks for compiling it! One of my favorite grunge fonts is Cold Coffee by Fontorama.
The A Bite image links to the Hawaii Font.
Thanks for sharing such a nice collection!! I love them all.
Bruised is amazing!
These fonts are fantastic! Well done.
you guys should have included Tibetan BeefGarden in this one.
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.
interesting fonts! working in the design industry i keep requiring newer ideas and designs for work. these are helpful. thanks!
Awesome collection thanks.
Broken Record is written in Horos and not itself (the ‘O’ is the giveaway). BTW, but thanks for the links.
Wow Thats a big list,
have used Hawaii Killer alot Of time here i got alot new ones
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!
Incredible nice fonts… They are very beautiful and useful for web design or orhers
Thanks for the great fonts, I’ll definitely make use of the defused font.
nice collection, is big inspiration , thnx.
Thank you Jon! AWESOME Collection!
I liked all except the topmost five. Where is Bleeding Cowboys?
nothing says trashy like a ransom note font or spray paint. excellent.
I’m with the guy of the last comment. This grounge stuff rocks.
Awesome grunge collection! I’ve need some newer trashy fonts for quite some time now, thanks.
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!
Sorry,
Forgot to mention i used the “TRASHCO” one.. :)
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.
Those are some awesome fonts!
Great article, thx :)
Also some nice free grunge fonts http://www.fonts2u.com/category.html?id=42
Great grunge fonts i love that Agressive Angry Baby Killer font even though it has a crazy name haha.
Very nice collection of fonts, I have been searching for these kind of fonts for almost a 2 hours and finally I found this post.
Thanks for making life so easy :)
Ca you also use these fonts for CSS webfonts?
Some really cool fonts here, seen a few before, but most of them were new to me, thanks:)