Do you know one of the best ways to incorporate style and character into your designs?
Grunge fonts. Yes, you read that right! With grunge fonts, you can make sure that your design projects stand out from the crowd.
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No matter your need, a grunge or rough grunge font may be all you need to achieve the style and appeal you are searching for.
However, finding the best grunge or rough grunge fonts can be a time-consuming process.
Lucky for you, we have curated a list of the 30+ Best Grunge Fonts for Graphic Design, Branding, and Logo Design that will meet your needs.
10+ Best Grunge Fonts (Free & Premium)
- Ugly Alligator – Grunge Typeface + Bonus
- Greatful Heart Font Collection
- Defect – Creative Serif Font
- Marquee Light Bulbs – Front View
- Typewriter Font & Ink Pad Textures
- Grayson Font Pack
- Saltash A Condensed Sans
- Plasticine Typography Creator
- Blakstone – Vintage Display Font Family
- Melvis – Vintage Font Family
For the complete list, scroll on!
Also see our features on the best woodtype fonts, the best vintage fonts and the best retro fonts.
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And now, back to our list of the best grunge fonts.
40+ Best Grunge Fonts for Graphic Design, Branding, and Logo Design
1. Ugly Alligator – Grunge Typeface + Bonus
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Introducing a grunge sans-serif font that we recommend for creating t-shirt prints, unique logos, and much more.
Ugly Alligator is a handmade grunge font that comes with uppercase alphabets, numerals, and punctuations.
Additionally, we found that you get a set of bonus hand-drawn vector elements with this pack.
To use its stylistic alternates, you require professional design software such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, or Inkscape.
2. Greatful Heart Font Collection
Are you looking for a modern font with a little rustic touch? Then, you should check out this font.
Greatful Heart font collection is a perfectly paired font collection. We find it ideal for a wide range of creative projects.
This grunge font includes four versions: script, slanted, sans, and sans inline which will help to maximize your creativity.
In addition, you also get 20 handmade, color-trending background papers, 3 grunge textures, and 50 hand-drawn modern vector elements with this pack.
The font is compatible with Adobe Photoshop CS4 (and higher), Adobe Illustrator Version CS4 (and higher) versions.
3. Defect — Creative Serif Font
Say hello to an elegant grunge font that is loaded with ligature glyphs, alternates, ornaments, and multilingual support to add charm to your next project.
In our opinion, Defect is a versatile font that works great in large and small sizes.
You can use this font for branding projects, product packaging, homeware designs, and magazine headers. In addition, you can use this font simply as a stylish text overlay to any background image.
4. Marquee Light Bulbs — Front View
Presenting a vintage-style 3D lettering toolkit that will help you to create super-realistic vintage typography artworks.
Marquee light bulbs is an amazing grunge font that comes with a huge collection of 6 grunge display fonts in OTF and TTF.
From our experience, it also includes 9 light bulb renders with a front and top view, 30 vintage style boards and shapes, 8 stand constructions, and a lot of small shapes & elements. Those include circles, cables, holders, and screws.
One of the exciting features of this font is that all the letterings and shapes in this pack are in really high-resolution transparent PNG files, enabling you to create big-budget print projects.
5. Typewriter Font & Ink Pad Textures
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Welcome the Typewriter and Ink Pad Textures bundle that enables designers to infuse retro vibes in their designs.
We found that this grungy typewriter font has been sampled from a real vintage typewriter. It includes both uppercase and lowercase characters, numerals, punctuations, symbols, and multilingual support.
In our opinion, this grunge font is perfect for adding a little grunge or a vintage look to your designs, posters, postcards, packaging, branding, social media posts, and much more.
6. Grayson Font Pack
Discover a font set that includes three typefaces from the Grayson family. All fonts in the Grayson font pack have the same shape; however, they have different styles and effects.
Grayson Regular is a straight grotesque, Lord Grayson has a classic decorative style, and Grayson Rough has a grunge textured effect.
This grunge font family includes uppercase and lowercase characters, numerals, punctuations, symbols, and multilingual support.
You also get a variety of bonus graphics like label templates, mockups, and vector illustrations with this pack.
7. Saltash A Condensed Sans
Meet a condensed sans serif typeface that comes in both rough and grunge versions. Saltash is a great display font, and it is perfect for media like posters, vintage logo designs, packaging, clothing, and much more.
8. Plasticine Typography Creator
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Do you need realistic plasticine, clay, or Play-Doh style lettering pack? Then, you should check out the Plasticine Typography Creator.
With this pack you will get seven regular fonts – hand-drawn and grunge; 3D style letterings, fonts & elements for your new artistic projects; 8 lettering sets & 7 color fonts; and a set of graphic elements, backgrounds, scenes, and much more.
Interestingly, all letterings, fonts, and graphics in this pack are ready for print. You can just drag and drop the different elements to create your own custom scenes and composition.
With so many features, you can use this pack for flyers, social media, banners, greeting cards, packaging, logos, quotes, website, blog, among other projects.
9. Blakstone — Vintage Display Font Family
Perfect for your retro designs, Blakstone is a distressed/vintage display family of 25 fonts. Aided with geometry, found-type, a real love of texture, this grunge font has a lot to offer.
It comes with 25 styles including, grunge, hatches, halftones, linen, shadow, inline, fills, and much more.
You can combine the various styles in this font to control colors on different layers to get the desired effect, or you can just use a single style to keep it simple.
In addition, Blakstone is full of open-type features including, ligatures, superscript numbers, discretionary ligatures, automatic open-type fractions., and subscript numbers.
Another exciting feature of this font is its support for 130 International languages and dialects. This font is apt for the design world including, branding, invitations, signage, restaurant, grocery signage, and much more.
10. Melvis — Vintage Font Family
Featuring a family of 5 different styles- regular, grunge, outline, rough, and stamp, Melvis is the perfect font to make your design look pretty and trendy. In addition to the five style fonts, this font family also includes extra badges and extra illustrations.
You can use this grunge font for greeting cards, brand identity, package designs, DIY projects, weddings, book titles, retro designs, among other projects. This font is compatible with Adobe Illustrator Version CC 2017 and higher versions.
11. Smoke Signals Script Font and Extras
Give your designs the perfect vintage calligraphy look with the Smoke Signals script font. It is a calligraphy font handmade using a real dip pen and ink with lots of bonus goodies. This font includes grunge elements, tons of ligatures for a smoother text, small caps, and a bonus set of ornaments.
In addition, you also get a bonus set of 10 paper textures scanned from old record sleeves and old notebooks.
The stylistic alternates in this pack will require professional design software such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, or Inkscape. You can use this grunge font in signatures and logos, notes and quotes, social media posts, packaging, among other designs.
12. Southbank Vintage Typeface
Packed with 4 unique styles, Southbank display font is one of the latest vintage fonts that can take your projects to the next level. Each font version in this pack comes with an italic version and an inked counterpart.
Besides four styles with italics and grungy distressed versions, this grunge font also comes with multilingual support for an array of Latin and Western European languages, as well as basic Cyrillic.
With so many features, this font will seamlessly apply itself to any vintage-inspired design project.
13. Triump Rough Font Family
Featuring two different subfamilies- blur and rock, Triump is a grunge font that is great for giving your artwork a different look. The blur version of this pack comes with 12 individual fonts, which is a soft, delicate font with a vintage and hipster feel, giving your design a breath of fresh air.
The rock version of this font is a strong, hard font in uppercase and lowercase characters well-suited for high-impact headlines.
The font family also comes with a wide range of OpenType features, such as ligatures, alternates, and catchwords, as well as a series of ornaments and extras, making it perfect for a variety of projects.
14. Rusted Brushpen Script and Bonus
Rusted Brushpen is a handcrafted script font that comes with a rough grungy effect. This grunge font is available in various font formats and vector EPS files.
You also get a set of bonus graphics with this pack. This font is compatible with Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Illustrator Version CS3, and higher versions.
15. Trend Rough Font Family
Presenting a grunge font made of layers, taking as a basis of sans and slab font. Trend rough font tries to capture the aesthetics of fashion or even fashion itself, integrating elements of a very popular and current trend.
Moreover, it is a typeface that has all the required components helping you design everything without adding any external elements to it.
16. Neato Serif Rough Fonts
Neato is a hand-drawn, quirky serif grunge font that comes with a textured, letterpress appearance. It includes stylistic alternates, standard and discretionary ligatures, and swashes to add options and flair to your typography.
One of the exciting features of this font is that it adds a unique blend of sophistication with its high contrasts. The font is slightly condensed, making it perfect for display headlines, titles, packaging, branding, and more.
17. Motherline Vintage Toolbox
Meet a font toolbox that not only features a bunch of handcrafted vintage fonts but also includes a huge collection of logo/badge templates that perfectly match the fonts.
Motherline includes various versions, like regular, bold, rough, block, sans, sans rough, and more. You can use this font for a grungy and gritty textured design, vintage lettering, logos, badges, among other designing needs.
18. Dirty Cartoon Font
Dirty Cartoon is a hand-drawn typeface that comes with four different font variations, which make it easy for using and recolor. In addition, this font also includes a bonus set of illustrations with this pack.
It is compatible with Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Illustrator Version CS3, and higher versions.
19. Grinder Press Old School Effects
Featuring a fine collection of 49 handsomely worn textures and old-school effects, the Grinder Press font is a sturdy font that helps to transform your designs into hammered pieces of old grunge & vintage lines instantly.
The PSD version of this font turns your flat designs into an industrial vintage look. You just need to drop your designs inside the smart object and save them; the Grinder will complete them with broken lines and dirty grunge in a flash.
20. Spoiled Brush Font
Spoiled is a rough handwritten brush font that comes with a natural style. It includes uppercase and lowercase characters, ligatures, numerals, punctuations, and stylistic sets.
You can use this grunge font for branding, magazines, packaging, advertising, poster design, website headers, greeting cards, apparel designs, album covers, and much more.
21. Kronos | Grunge Font Style
Belonging to the sans-serif family of typefaces, Kronos is a grungy font that comes with a calligraphy style. This font includes grunge-style fonts, hundreds of glyphs, alternates, ligatures, punctuations, and much more.
The alternate characters in this font are divided into several OpenType features such as stylistic alternates, stylistic sets, contextual alternate, swash, and ligature.
Another interesting feature of this grunge font is that it comes with four spacing options- normal, monospace, condensed and expanded. You can use this font in business cards, quotes, greeting cards, branding materials, posters, and more.
22. Zion | Eroded Grunge Font
Inspired by one of the great national parks of the U.S., Zion is a hand-drawn display font that comes in two styles. This grunge font features uppercase characters, numerals, and punctuations.
It comes with normal spacing and belongs to the sans-serif family of typefaces. With its little rough and organic touch, Zion evokes the rocky red cliffs, which makes it perfect for a wide range of designs.
23. Vescona — Grunge Serif Font
Say hello to a rustic and rugged serif font that is perfect for creating flyers, logos, posters, invitations, banners, hero headers, much more. Vescona features uppercase and lowercase characters, punctuations, numerals, and multilingual glyphs.
Moreover, you can optimize this font to any size. You can use this grunge font for all projects that require a combination of elegance and a natural rustic vibe.
24. Broken Drive — Grunge Display Font
Introducing a grunge sans-based font that comes with natural textures.
The Broken Drive font includes uppercase and lowercase characters, numerals, and punctuations. You can combine the uppercase and lowercase characters in this font to make your design look more natural and handmade.
One of the interesting features of this grunge font is its textured look, which can make your posters and presentations look bolder and stand out which makes it perfect for movie posters, among other design needs.
25. Grunge Font — Freestyle Display Font
Are you looking for a perfect font for your grunge-based art projects? Then, you should check out the Grunge font. It belongs to the sans-serif family of typefaces and comes with normal spacing.
This font comes with regular and swash versions, making it ideal for a variety of projects.
26. Grunge Decade
Inspired by the design styles of the 80s, Grunge decade is a typeface that is taken from the design style of magic mushrooms, which was hit at that time.
This grunge font includes A-Z characters in uppercase and lowercase, numerals, punctuations, stylistic alternates, and multilingual support.
Grunge decade font has a funny style but has an aesthetic and unique style. You can use it for designing signboards, t-shirts, posters, and social media projects.
27. Halybed | Grunge Typeface Font
Halybed is a grunge font with a calligraphy style that is great for invitations like greeting cards, business cards, posters, branding, and more. It comes with grunge-style fonts, tons of glyphs, ligatures, punctuations, alternates, and more.
Interestingly the alternate characters in this font are divided into several OpenType features such as stylistic alternates, stylistic sets, contextual alternate, swash, and ligature.
The OpenType features in this font can be accessed using programs, such as Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw X version, and Microsoft Word.
28. Broken Bold Brush Font
Meet a brush-style sans display grunge font that is perfect for your new projects. It comes with normal spacing, and you can optimize it to any size.
With the Broken Bold Brush font, you can evoke the realistic effects of hand-drawn fonts. You can use it for grunge, urban, freestyle, or artistic projects.
29. Nemesis — Futuristic Font
Need a futuristic, industrial, and grunge font that is perfect for your new projects? Then, you should check out Nemesis. This normal spacing font comes with four font styles- regular and grunge; inline and inline grunge.
It belongs to the sans-serif family of typefaces and can be optimized to any size. This font finds its use in modern and futuristic-style projects.
30. Grunges Grunge Brush Font
Belonging to the sans-serif family of typefaces, the Grunges Grunge brush font is an ideal grunge font to give your designs an authentic brush handcrafted feel. This normal spacing font can be optimized to any size.
It comes in 4 versions- grunges and grunges swash; both with OTF and TTF files. This font is perfectly suited for logos, typography quotes, book covers, flyers, branding, packaging design, and much more.
31. Blocklyn Font Family
The Blocklyn Font Family belongs to the large and bold fonts, which is a tough and uncompromising font. However, these fonts are not restricted only to masculine design styles because it includes standard and extended Latin characters alongside numbers and symbols.
This pack contains a set of Webfonts, which makes it easier for you to deploy them on your website.
32. Rectoverso Grunge Display Font Extra Swash
Are you looking for an authentic handcrafted brush look for your fonts? Rectoverso Grunge Display Font will fit your needs. This grunge font is perfect for signature and stationery items. You can also use them as the title design for any magazine or novel, packaging design, etc.
This set includes the Rectoverso (OTF) and (TTF) and the Rectoverso Swash (OTF) and (TTF).
33. Lawless Display Font
Lawless Display Font draws inspiration from the early American wood type of the 1800s. It is a bold type grunge font that gives you a vintage wild look and feel.
Lawless font comes in four different styles: Regular, Grunge, Spur, and Shadow. You can mix and match the looks of this font to get the ideal look you desire.
This font set includes upper and lowercase characters, numbers, punctuation marks, and various symbols. It also gives support to typeface characters of the eastern, western, and central European countries.
34. Grunge
Grunge Font is a typical font that has the look and feel of children’s handwriting. The typeface style includes improvisation in the uppercase mode and dynamic touch to the lowercase characters.
This font is ideal to depict book titles of children, children’s illustration books, website titles, or anything for your graphic design needs focusing on children.
35. Quick Brown
Quick Brown is a calligraphy-style font for printing invitation cards, greeting cards, business cards, posters, and much more.
The replacement characters of the font are in several Open Type features such as Stylistic Sets, Stylistic Alternates, Contextual Alternate, SWASH, and ligature.
You may access the features of the font by using programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw X version, and MSWord.
This font also has a PUA Unicode so that you can access the alternate characters easily. These fonts also have multilingual support.
The set includes the Quick Brown Grunge Font in OTF and TTF, a plethora of glyphs, alternate characters and ligatures, and PUA encoded characters.
36. Braser
Braser is a grunge brush typeface font with a calligraphy style. This grunge font looks good on greeting cards, business cards, quotes, posters, and much more.
The replacement characters of the font are in several features such as Stylistic Sets, Stylistic Alternates, Contextual Alternate, SWASH, and Ligature.
You may access the Open Type fonts with various programs that include Adobe Illustrators, Adobe Photoshop, and MSWord. These fonts also comprise the PUA Unicode.
Included in the font sets are Grunge Brush Typeface OTF and TTFs, hundreds of glyphs, alternate fonts, and ligatures and provide multilingual support.
37. Work And Wear
Are you searching for a vintage font collection that is designed in a way that is stacked with texture? If so, Work And Wear grunge font is the best choice for you. This font collection is stacked with texture and crafted to look like the font that was on old walls from a bygone era.
This collection in addition to the letters comes with six plus typography logos thrown in which are perfect for your vintage-style projects. However, you would need Adobe Illustrator Version CS5 to access this font collection as it is compatible only with this software program.
38. Rundeck
Rundeck grunge font is designed in such a way to represent crafted stuff of serif display inspired by a beautiful retro music poster.
This vintage textured font is an ideal choice for any projects that require a retro touch. This retro vintage grunge font comes in four styles: regular, smooth, rough, and texture which makes it a versatile font.
A few of the major projects this font fits in are logotype, poster, label, badge, packaging, branding, and more custom designs and supports multiple languages. While considering the package, it comes with upper case letters, lowercase letters, numbers, punctuations, alternates, and ligatures.
39. Marygold Font Duo Collection
To add a unique blend to your projects, Marygold Font Duo Collection which looks like a grunge font comes with a blend of handwritten script, elegant serif, textures, and design elements together.
It helps in bringing a fun and classy look to your projects like branding, packaging, logos, and designs for printing.
It comes in two styles: handwritten in SVG format and a regular one which also offers OpenType ligatures and alternates which you can use in any design project.
It also comes with swashes helping to create very smooth and well-flowing designs and supports multiple languages.
40. Rough Marker
Do you want to add some style with a grunge font to your designs? Rough Marker with a bold and stylish look is an ideal choice for you.
This bold grunge font is a stylish handwritten font that comes in two variations of letters, swashes, and lines. It also includes ink drips and some symbols as a bonus in the package.
This distressed font also gives a paintbrush feeling to your designs.
This stylish font is an ideal choice for any project that requires a realistic and stylish handwritten touch. It is suitable for quotes, posters, movie titles, magazines, and design printings.
41. Penster Bross
A standout bold font with both a rough and a stamp version, the Penster Bross font is one of the best grunge fonts out there. The texture of the font gives the font a bold look that is suited best for retro and vintage themes.
This font is especially suitable for branding, logos, letterheads, and various other formal forms such as invitations, labels, logos, magazines, books, greeting/wedding cards, packaging, fashion, make-up, stationery, novels, labels or any type of advertising purpose.
42. Nightmare
The Nightmare font is a Grunge Font with a calligraphy style. The font is beautiful on invitations like greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters, and more!
The font includes tons of glyphs; alternates and ligatures; punctuations; PUA Encoded Characters – Fully accessible without additional design software. The font is available in multiple languages.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are grunge fonts?
Grunge fonts are typically any font that has an untidy or alternative look to them. Generally, they are fonts that capture the same look and feel as popular rock or
punk culture
. These fonts can also have a more dramatic look to them. That said, there are quite a few grunge fonts that work well as display fonts.
What is the best grunge font for dramatic designs?
Defect is easily the best grunge font for more dramatic aesthetics and designs.
What is the best 80's inspired grunge font?
Grunge Decade is likely the best 80's inspired grunge font.
What is the best futuristic grunge font?
Nemesis – Futuristic Font is one of the best grunge fonts for futuristic designs.
What is the best modern and fun grunge fonts?
Grunge Font – Freestyle Display Font and Grayson Font Pack are some of the better modern and fun grunge fonts for designers to work with.
What are grunge fonts commonly used for?
Grunge fonts are rough-looking fonts that are commonly used for e-books, signatures, and stationeries. You can also use it for quotes, magazines, and
book covers
.
Best Grunge Fonts for Graphic Design, Branding, and Logo Design Summary
Fonts are now more important than ever when it comes to graphic design. With tight competition comes more demand from designers to deliver output that stands out from the rest.
These were some of the best grunge/rough grunge out there to make your projects stand out. You can use these fonts for personal as well as commercial purposes. Go ahead and choose the ones that best suit your needs.
If you found anything you liked from our list, share it with us in the comments below!
