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Distressed: Industrial & Urban Decay

Noah Nazir
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Last edited September 12, 2018

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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jungle
fiddlesticks
Humor is reason gone bad

The Handel Gothic™ typeface has been a mainstay of graphic communication for over 40 years - all the while looking as current as tomorrow. Designed by Don Handel in the mid-1960s, and used in the 1973 United Airlines logo developed by Saul Bass, Handel Gothic was an instant success when released to the graphic design community. Its generous lowercase x-height, full-bodied counters and square... Read More

replay
enthusiastic
The world without his nucleus

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
enthusiastic
Hell: one way in and no way out

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

brandy
illustrative
Dog pawprints on your clothes

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

chalet
japanophilia
Life’s a bitch, and I’m a dog

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

Donald Handel, Nadine Chahine and Rod McDonald
ITC 2010
Yanek Iontef
FontFont 2003
Eduardo Manso
Bitstream 1997
Just van Rossum
FontFont 1992
Just van Rossum
FontFont 1992
Just van Rossum
FontFont 1992