Have you ever had to read text from a cheap dot-matrix printer which is not aligned quite right, so that the tops of the letters are either darker or lighter than the bottoms? Now with IrritationOne and IrritationTwo you can relive that experience even though you no longer use a dot-matrixed printer. IrritationOne has dark tops and fading bottoms, while IrritationTwo has the opposite. Naturally both are monospaced.

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Nidex is a caps-only industrial distressed font, ideal for titles, display and headlines, rough and ready, and coming with all the usual accented characters and an extensive set of punctuation.

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A typeface made from vintage typewriter samples and meticulously compiled into a complete character set.

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Maim is one messed up sans serif typeface. Designed to be used as a family by intermixing the letters for more random looking destroyed text.

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Password was inspired by the randomly generated characters used for extra online security.

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Zapatista is derived from a typeface that I designed in 1998 but never released. It is a playful slab serif with a texture that is sometimes subtle and reminiscent of the irregularities of letterpress printing.

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The OpenType version of Dogjaw has 26 ligature features that automatically substitute a unique pair of distressed characters when any lower case letter is keyed twice in a row.

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A very dirty, and yet legible type. It comes from an old document that was made in the 70s. Every character was developed as an unique design piece. Perfect for titles, credits and display type.

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Busted is the very strange and out-of-character outburst of Bill Troop, a guy who was classically trained in everything, from classical piano and literature to classical photography and type design. As far as we could tell, Bill Troop is the kind of guy whose appearance and voice instantly trigger thoughts of black and white photos, fedoras, and pre-industrial age Europe. A few years ago, he even moved from the United States to England, where it took him less than a week to feel at home and start sounding like a Norwich native. Then something happened and the poor dude just snapped. Busted is the controversial result of the blood rushing to his head. If you know what exactly happened to him, please let us know.

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Stubble is a distressed grunge font with many useful variations that make things easy. It comes in both a Regular and Bold version, and a Smudged version as if the print block has slipped a little bit just at the vital moment. Also there’s 2 jumbled versions with the letters and numbers, and some punctuation, at odd angles and slightly off-whack; there’s 2 versions with little bits of overprint on most of the main characters (as if the corners of the block or stamp have just caught the paper); a couple of Caps Only versions; plus condensed and expanded versions of the main faces. The Bold version is not an exact expanded version of the Regular version, please note, the characters are different (i.e. the misprinting is different) in the two weights.

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The idea for Lipstick came from a snippy little note Patrick Griffin’s better half left for him one night. The note was tacked to the bedroom door. “COUCH TONIGHT!” it exclaimed in red lipstick on a paper towel. All because the hockey game was on at the same time as American Idol. Sheesh. But since all is fair in love and hockey, and since Patrick was used to such cruel treatment, he shrugged his shoulders and let his mind wander about the concept of using lipstick as a writing tool, and pondering the possibilities of a lipstick font.

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A typeface made from vintage typewriter samples and meticulously compiled into a complete character set.

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Grunge, in a painterly sort of way; excellent for a wide variety of uses in headline and display.

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A raw stamped letterpress style font, make your mark.

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This font is not overly distressed, nor is it overly clean. It is a typewriter font. It is perfect when you want a document to look like it was made on a typewriter.

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Nikona is a typographic family composed of eight fonts. The leading thread that typifies this family is its “mutant spirit”; a result of my personal and typographic interpretation of the three robotic laws created by Asimov in 1940, and reflected many times in sci-fi movies, comics and Japanese anime.

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A typeface made from vintage typewriter samples and meticulously compiled into a complete character set.

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Developed from Superbastone and projected to be used with all the weights of Superbastone.

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Typewrither is not your every-day-typewriter-font. It comes with almost 200 different ligatures to help avoiding repeating letters - this includes ligatures for both lowercase, uppercase and numbers.

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Wickenburg is a rough and tumble grunge slab typeface that has taken a lickin' but keeps on coming back for more.

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One of the first messy typewriter fonts to hit the market, Chandler 42 was compiled with forensic care from the voluminous output of a circa 1942 portable.

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Alta California became designer steve mehallo’s "vector-based artist’s response" to the early Apple Macintosh bitmapped font San Francisco. Alta California was developed using “sampled” wood type and letters from numerous historical sources.

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Derailer’s eclectic character set is comprised mainly of disparate sans serif characters that claim to play well together, OpenType users also benefit from 26 ligature features that automatically substitute a unique pairing of letters when any lower case character is keyed twice in a row.

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Chelp is a grunge display font, in 4 different styles: there’s a Regular and All-Caps version, plus a Dirty version which has little bits of overprint like the edge of the stamp has accidentally marked the paper, and a Jumbled version where the characters are misaligned in various small ways, or are at slightly odd angles.

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Gerry Powell’s stencil version of Clarendon designed for ATF in 1938.

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Blackout SCF is a loose and informal grungy font with a modern, electric zappy quality.

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Rocksolid’s appearance is somewhere between a font resembling large, carved blocks of stone and a negative outline grunge font, and it is surprisingly responsive to simple effects in graphics programs.

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Damaged Guts is a somewhat messed up sans serif font.

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Once I ate a knuckle sandwich after saying some things about some guy’s pregnant girlfriend. It turns out she wasn't pregnant at all. I felt like a real knucklehead. So I made this font.

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A typeface made from vintage typewriter samples and meticulously compiled into a complete character set.

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Rysse is a primitive art-college grunge font, completely legible but quite unsophisticated. Unashamedly. The typeface comes in two main styles: one a standard hi-case lo-case version & the other an all caps version. There’s also three versions which give an apparently random lighter/bolder printout when decreased uniformity is the order of the day.

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Stoan is a rough, textured grunge font, based on the popular Spaza.

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Based on proofs of an early Remington typewriter font from the Keystone Type Foundry, circa 1905.

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Thoughts comes in Truetype, Windows PostScript and Opentype format.

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Stalker is one of those necessary fonts in a designer’s toolbox: Grungy sans serif caps that are most useful for entertainment project chores.

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This lettering was used by the Pabst Brewing Company for their promotional materials. It was later developed into type for ATF.

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A typeface made from vintage typewriter samples and meticulously compiled into a complete character set.

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SavoryPaste is a grungy sans serif from insigne. SavoryPaste includes 64 discretionary ligatures of the most common letter pairs for a more natural look without distracting repeating characters. The typeface family also includes OpenType small caps, old style figures and alternates without filled counters. The SavoryPaste family also includes a completely interchangeable and more restrained alternate.

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Chapter 11 is a pseudo-random typewriter font with the ribbon on the fritz. The single font contains four different character sets of varying ranges. If your program supports advanced OpenType features, activate the contextual alternates to see the ghost in the machine while you type. Otherwise, character variations are accessible through any character map or glyph palette, so you can manually mix and match your setting.

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Ghost Train features slightly alternate glyphs A-Z in the lower case that can be used to differentiate concecutive characters

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Superxoid is super-distorted, super-damaged and super-noisy...summa summarum, Superxoid is super-grungy!

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StoneWash is a funky, grunge font, with a monumental marble finish. The font combines an “old as the hills grunge” look with IN YOUR FACE, modern lines.

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Rough, damaged, distorted and grungy: that’s Smudgers!

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Hiroformica is a typographic family composed by eight different fonts configured for integrated combat.

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A typeface made from vintage typewriter samples and meticulously compiled into a complete character set.

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Named for the strong, cold winds of southern France, Mistral was designed by Roger Excoffon for the Olive foundry in 1953.

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Blue Sugar is a grunge font which has one letter-shape in white set within a different grunge letter-shape in black.

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Mildly abstract letterforms constructed with a decisive, flamboyant brush stroke are the hallmark of revered French designer Roger Excoffon. Choc was designed in 1955 by Fonderie Olive, but has only recently come into widespread popularity as the trend for casual display typography has grown.

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A typeface made from vintage typewriter samples and meticulously compiled into a complete character set.

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Get ready for a battle - a battle of punk and grunge!

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Two typefaces called Stencil were released in 1937 within a month of each other; this one was designed by Gerry Powell for American Type Founders. The characters are designed to emulate the look of bold, cut-out stencil letters.

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A typeface made from vintage typewriter samples and meticulously compiled into a complete character set.

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Based on the Medium weight of Ludlow Tempo.

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A typeface made from vintage typewriter samples and meticulously compiled into a complete character set.

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Designed in 1953 by leading French designer Roger Excoffon based on his own handwriting, Mistral has become an institution among script typefaces. It was the first of the textured edge styles and its fresh, distinctive appearance makes it very popular. The capitals can be used alone or with the lowercase that joins in true script fashion.

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Quadrat Dirty is a damaged font with a modern and young style.

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Anarckhie is a square-serifed typeface with a calligraphic origin. The horizontal elements of the upper-case letters are below their midpoint, and the x-height of the lower-case letters is unusually small. There is some variation in the weights of the horizontal, vertical, and diagonal elements. The small x-height makes this typeface appear smaller than its point size would indicate.

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Based on the original typeface from Face, London, circa 1972.

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A typeface made from vintage typewriter samples and meticulously compiled into a complete character set.

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