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Distressed: Industrial & Urban Decay

Stephen Coles
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Last edited May 15, 2015

It’s often best to apply your own effects to make type appear authentically aged, but sometimes a distressed typeface is the easiest and most prudent solution. Here are fonts that are damaged, weathered, antiqued, worn, or corroded by many years of industrial wear or urban decay.



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mystic
enthusiastic
Law prohibits underwater smoking

Yanek Iontef loves the printing on cardboard packaging. For years, he collected empty cardboard boxes that once carried imported goods. His studio soon looked like a warehouse. To regain ground, he began transforming the visual language of the boxes into a font with universal appeal. Then, he donated the whole of his cardboard collection to a local recycling facility. There are two FF... Read More

chalet
illustrative
Marry in haste, repent at leisure

Just as popular as the digital typewriter face FF Trixie are those in the FF Instant Types series: FF Confidential, FF Dynamoe, FF Flightcase, FF Karton, and FF Stamp Gothic. Named after the places each comes from, these fonts feature familiar character sets from everyday letters and figures all around us: packaging, flight cases, children’s stamp boxes, Dymo tape labelers. We see them every... Read More

vortex
japanophilia
Sunshade with the firm crust

Just as popular as the digital typewriter face FF Trixie are those in the FF Instant Types series: FF Confidential, FF Dynamoe, FF Flightcase, FF Karton, and FF Stamp Gothic. Named after the places each comes from, these fonts feature familiar character sets from everyday letters and figures all around us: packaging, flight cases, children’s stamp boxes, Dymo tape labelers. We see them every... Read More

mystic
wunderkinder
Whatever you do, don’t regurgitate

Just as popular as the digital typewriter face FF Trixie are those in the FF Instant Types series: FF Confidential, FF Dynamoe, FF Flightcase, FF Karton, and FF Stamp Gothic. Named after the places each comes from, these fonts feature familiar character sets from everyday letters and figures all around us: packaging, flight cases, children’s stamp boxes, Dymo tape labelers. We see them every... Read More

Yanek Iontef
FontFont 2003
Eduardo Manso
Bitstream 1997
Hannes von Döhren
HVD Fonts 2013
Just van Rossum
FontFont 1992
Just van Rossum
FontFont 1992
Just van Rossum
FontFont 1992