Designs doesn’t have to be clean and beautiful all the time – it is just to boring don’t you think? In some cases rough and hard or old and worn out look fits the purpuse or the target group better and then Grunge style Fonts comes in really handy. Grunge Fonts can probably mean different things to different people but really Grunge means dirt (besides being a really interesting music style from the 90′s) and that is just what Grunge Fonts is all about. Good Grunge Fonts are normally wrecked, cut in pieces, hammered etc. and they just look like time and weather have worn them out.
Besides providing a list of some of the best Grunge Fonts available for free this article also showcase some of the fonts and gives examples of how they can be used. This is pure inspiration ans a source of ideas if you’re looking for that as well. As allways check the license carefully for any free font you’re planning to use. Lets get started. [click to continue…]
For quite some time companies and governments have been working hard to make daily life things available as digital services in whatever way possible. At the same time most communication is handled digitally by sending emails or chatting. Sending a good old snail mail letter is still possible but not that popular really. Some people send real paper post cards when they are on vacation but as more and more handheld gadgets and hotels with Internet allow us to be online even on vacation we either tend to blog or stick to digital communication these days. The advantages that computers give us is obvious but the complete turnaround that have happened over just a few years makes real life stuff like fx. hand written text catch most peoples attention (even though it is presented on a computer screen). Hand writing is something we all know very well and have been working hard to learn in school, it may bring up emotions, memories, images that a plain verdana or times roman can’t compete with. While hand written fonts may be very useful to achieve certain design goals they are not to be applied in any case. Long text and difficult to read text are examples where hand written fonts may be painful for the reader. For headers and short notes hand written fonts may be very useful. [click to continue…]
