5 Excellent Free Grunge Fonts

These are 5 of the (in my opinion) best free “grunge” or “eroded” typefaces of late. Three of which are from the same artist/typographer Gyom S?guin. I hope you didn’t miss these, but if you did, you can download them right away. They’re free. I wish I had more opportunities to take advantage of these fonts in a real situation, but I find that it’s always a good idea to keep these fonts around to save time having to look for them later.

Turbo Ripped
Dirty Ames
Sidewalk
Neoprint
Trashed

Turbo Ripped

By: Gyom S?guin. An excellent mash-up grunge font with a lot of extra detail added. I have the feeling that this font has begun to set the bar for mash-up grunge fonts, and we will most likely see a lot more fonts to follow in this style. (You won’t hear me complaining!)

Turbo Ripped

Dirty Ames

By: Typology. A very detailed and intricate combination of wood type and hardcore street grunge. Not for the shy or light-hearted. This grunge font means business. Very nice work Typology.

Dirty Ames

Sidewalk

By: Gyom S?guin. A very well thought out grunge font with a strong textural feel to it. It’s a heavier font, and works very well as a background layer or as a texture layer itself.

Sidewalk

Neoprint M319

By: Polenimschaufenster. I like this font because of its extra shapes, outside of the actual letters. It has a stamp-like feel with a twist, that works very well, making use of both positive shapes, and negative space.

Neoprint

Trashed

By: Gyom S?guin. This is a very nice grunge font with a hint of a wester feel. I wouldn’t be surprised to see this one on a movie poster in the future.

Trashed

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200 Responses to “5 Excellent Free Grunge Fonts”

  1. I really like the Gyom Seguin fonts, but IMO nothing beats a custom grunge font. Do you have a tut on how to do this? Perhaps I’ll write one…

  2. Wow, these fonts are amazing. I’m not much of a graphic designer myself, so I need a lot of help from things like fonts to help me actually realize something I conceptualize. The more fonts that help me out, the better off I am. :)

  3. there is also the base02 for me…well, the best for me is the frakturika, but it’s 25$ :\

  4. Love the fonts; While I could make these myself, when working on projects, I’d rather put more time into the design rather than the font itself;

    With that, to zacp, I’d love to see a tut on how to quickly build grunge fonts. :)

    BTW: Good job on this

  5. […] These are 5 of the (in my opinion) best free “grunge” or “eroded” typefaces of late. Three of which are from the same artist/typographer Gyom Séguin. I hope you didn’t miss these, but if you did, you can download them right away. They’re free. I wish I had more opportunities to take advantage of these […] [via BittBox] […]

  6. I love this blog. You always get to give us just the best. I was looking for some fonts like this ones… Can you read our minds?? ;o)

  7. You are completely awesome. I love your fonts.

  8. I used two of those fonts as well as your star pattern and your grunge corners in this little piece I made for my girlfriend tonight. You can check it out here if you’d like:

    http://tomstorm.t35.com/still/grungevector.jpg

  9. […] 5 Excellent Free Grunge Fonts | BittBox These are 5 of the (in my opinion) best free ?grunge? or ?eroded? typefaces of late. (tags: free fonts design) […]

  10. these are great !! dafont really has some great fonts

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  12. @Tom Storm

    Nice! Totally Cool! BittBox Likey.
    I’m going to add a User showcase section soon for things like this.

    ~BittBox

  13. I like cocaine :)
    http://www.1001fonts.com/font_details.html?font_id=2893

  14. Great site for fonts. Pay attention to the read me files and the license. A couple of these can also cause some printing errors.
    Good selection Bit.

  15. […] 5 Excellent Free Grunge Fonts | BittBox (tags: fonts free design) […]

  16. Wow… amazing fonts … “Sidewalk” sounds wonderful…. its totally different and attractive…rest are also nice… Dirty ames is also good, but some characters may not be read clearly….and make the word difficult .. may be this is with me only ;)

    Anyway, good effort…!!

  17. 5 A??nm?? Font

    Fontlar?n isimleri:

    Turbo Ripped
    Dirty Ames
    Sidewalk
    Neo Print M319
    Trashed

  18. Kool fonts, given me an idea!

  19. Very cool. I am amazed. These selection will be on my harddisk for every “grunge” purpose in the future. Thanks a lot.

  20. thanks a lot for this. Great stuff!

  21. these are nice fonts, but really only for display/texture

    when you use a grunge typeface for typesetting, the repeat letters are “abused” in the EXACT same way, such as every ‘N’ missing a chunk in the same corner

    the effect ends up looking really generic, better to just set hard-edged type and then make the whole thing grunge yourself, through a variety of techniques, much more unique

  22. Purp, you can always layer them and create unique shapes by combining paths. And overlapping your own grunge in with them.

    ~BittBox

  23. Great, the last one is just what I was looking for. Thanks!

  24. These look great :)
    Now… to find a use for for them.

  25. Unreal. Where can I buy you a beer?

    Cg

  26. I’m a translator who often gets documents that have been been rephotocopied and/or refaxed several times, to the point where it’s hard to make out the source text. Anyone know of a grunge font that looks like maybe it was Times New Roman, except that it’s basically impossible to distinguish, say, ‘e’ from ‘o’, ‘n’ from ‘r’, ‘8′ from ‘6′ from ‘9′, and so on?

    I would *so* like to include them in translations sent back to clients.

    Cheers…

  27. Now all we need is the ability to use fonts like these interoperably on the web! :-(

    Using them in documents and images is nice but being able to use them directly on web sites would totally rock!

    I do love your taste in fonts though and a very nice appraisal of each one!

  28. Craig,

    I hope that happens in our lifetime, it would do amazing things for web design, seriously.
    And thanks to you and everyone else for the compliments.

    ~BittBox

  29. A WARNING!!!!! MACINTOSH VIRUS!???
    The website for gyom seguin links to a site called dafont.com
    The fonts on that site caused a MAJOR PROBLEM to my system. All the names of my files and applications dissappeared and I could not restart at all. Actually, it looked like I could restart but actually the system would only log out of user. I had to do a hard restart to get it to work. The only fix for this was to wipe the drive and reinstall. Luckily, I had only just done this a week or so ago so all my data was backed up. I did not loose anything. But be warned, this site is shady and should NOT be trusted! I have never been hit by a malisious piece of code like this before and it was unnerving. Please do not fall victim to this guy and his desire to attack the Macintosh design comunity.

  30. A quick distinction:

    I did not mean to imply that the designer of these grunge fonts is to blame. There are many different designers on dafont.com and it may not even be any of their faults. But still, while I do not know which one it was, something caused my system to go crazy directly after I unzipped these files. My system fonts were altered and I could not read any error messages, Font Book crashed repeatidly, Firefox went haywire (graphically and functionally), and my system would not allow me to restart at all. Really weird stuff! Anyway, I do not, as of right now, believe that gyom seguin has anything to do with this directly. Just be careful. Has anyone else had any problems or comments?

  31. @Joe Sester

    Did you verify that there were no problems with thte fonts before installing?

    I don’t know how true this is or not. Personally I think Dafont is on top of their game, but who knows. I have never had a problem, and this is the first case I’ve ever heard of. I HAVE however had (multiple times) invalid font’s downloaded from Dafont that couldn’t pass verification by the system. Your Mac software Fontbook can tell you if there are problems with installed fonts and it can check them to verify if there are problems as you install.

    To verify AS you install, just double click on the font file itself and then click the install button. Your mac will automatically use fontbook to verify the font, and you will recieve a popup if there is a problem.

    How to validate fonts already installed on your Mac:

    1. Open font book, click on a font in the list then hit Command + A to select all.

    2. Go to “File > Validate Fonts”

    3. You will get a list of problems (red icons) warnings (yellow icons) and ok’s (green icons)

    4. Uninstall all the reds. (move them to the trash, and empty the trash)

    I might just write a post on this if there are enough people with similar problems, but I never install a font that doesn’t pass validation. This could be the problem you were having Joe, maybe not. It looks like you know about FontBook, and you are obviously computer savvy, but any font I download from Dafont can be no good. It’s hit and miss. I think this probably has to do with fonts created in ttf format but coded on a pc or mac and somewhere becomes incompatable to both platforms through saving from various softwares, as well as archiving methods. It’s understandable that problems can arise, but like Joe also mentioned, unwise to assume this is the work of a malicious typographer.

    ~BittBox

  32. @BittBox The web is already annoying enough without having anyone write their webpage in “Turbo Ripped”…

    But I still appreciate these font links!

  33. Talk about some wicked fonts… man i’ve really gotta start playing with illustrator.

  34. Let’s just pray that you clowns never get the oppportunity to design anything, your lack of taste is appalling

    Muzz

  35. […] 5 Excellent Free Grunge Fonts | BittBox (tags: free fonts graphics design) […]

  36. quote
    “Let?s just pray that you clowns never get the oppportunity to design anything, your lack of taste is appalling

    Muzz”

    You must not do much diverse work.
    I have done jobs for rock and punk bands that this very type of text is exactly what the client its looking for.

    You need to have an open mind my friends it’s about what your client wants not what you think.

  37. […] 5 Excellent Free Grunge Fonts  […]

  38. so if the GRUNGE fonts are used for personal use only…..can i use it in my commercial designs.

  39. Thanks for the links, Bitt! I tend to shy away from the fonts that say “free for personal use” — mostly because I don’t want to have them installed and forget that I didn’t buy the license for commercial use, then end up using them that way. But maybe I’ll save them in a special place and purchase when I do need them….

  40. These are just a few of the great gurnge fonts out there….scope dafont.com for the rest….

  41. […] 5 Excellent Free Grunge Fonts […]

  42. Hmmm, something weird is going on. I use Flash for a lot of graphic design — I know that’s unconventional, but I know the tools quite well and find I can create some pretty amazing stuff in comparison with what people expect from Flash.

    Anyway, I just installed Trashed, and while it works fine in InkScape, it’s having issues in Flash…if I make it too big, Flash crashes altogether. Can anyone tell me if they are able to use it in Flash, or if you also have this problem?

    Thanks

  43. […] Five Excellent Free Grunge Fonts for all those who like to get dirty with their type. […]

  44. “Dirty Ames” font looks cool! :)

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  46. Hi, great fonts, where can I buy the license for these fonts?

  47. awesome!!! thanX

  48. Mate! these are great fonts! I will use them on some bootleg cover arts, thank you!

  49. Wow! very nice fonts!!
    Can anybody tell me how to purchase them? I’m a newbie here and would like to use some of these fonts for DVD cover creation!
    Thnx!

  50. Making oneself understood is paramount. I will admit a font, in and of itself, says something about the its’ user, but again being understood is paramount. As the boomer generarion reaches the age when eyesight is diminished, clear, legible type of large enough size will become increasingly important.

  51. AWESOME!!! AWESOME!!! AWESOME!!!

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  53. your stuff is WAY cool

    @muzz: i appreciate that this is not to everyone’s taste but live and let live you know…?

  54. Your site always surpised me!!!!! I?m looking for this a long time ago… Hugs.

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  60. awesome!!! thanX

  61. sidewalk is my favourite there. Thanks for all!

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  66. I love your fonts.

  67. Turbo Ripped is good.

  68. Thanks…

  69. Thanks for the links, Bitt! I tend to shy away from the fonts that say “free for personal use”

  70. nice

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  72. Very nice… Thanks…

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  75. Does anyone have a good tutorial on making your own wood texture effects with Illustrator? I was going to make a button with a wood look to it…

    Awesome tutorials in general though. Hugely helpful!

    a

  76. thanks

  77. Awesome tutorials in general though. Hugely helpful!

  78. Exactly what I was looking for. I’m so happy

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  89. […] 5 Excellent Free Grunge Fonts […]

  90. thanks you..

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    Thanks a lot and best regards,
    toner

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  136. Thank You for another very interesting article. It’s really good written and I fully agree with You on main issue, btw. I must say that I really enjoyed reading all of Your posts. It’s interesting to read ideas, and observations from someone else’s point of view… it makes you think more. So please try to keep up the great work all the time. Greetings

  137. thanks.

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  139. Very nice fonts, my favourite font is the “Trashed” font. Greatings from Germany … Bye Rafael

  140. Doing some design work and I found your article on the web. Thanks for the heads up on this fonts.

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    Thank You! :D
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    regards,

    ryo

  154. fantastic fonts, really great

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