To give your typography a weathered look, you need to use a distressed font. Based on the design context, these fonts are perfect for conveying either a vintage style or an edgy urban vibe.

In this roundup, we bring you the 20 best distressed fonts suitable for a wide range of design needs and add more life to your projects. Read below to know which fonts have made to our list.

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20+ Best Distressed Fonts for Graphic Design, Branding, and Logo Design

Mystic Forest – Distressed Font

First on our list is a unique and decorative distressed font perfect for a wide range of projects, including titles, logos, and short phrases. Mystic Forest comes loaded with uppercase & lowercase letters, symbols, punctuations, numerals, alternates, and ligatures. In addition, you also get multilingual support with this font. You can also use this font as a stencil font for graffiti.

 

Bargers Distressed

This is a solid typeface that comes with curves and some distressed touch. Bargers belong to the serif family of typefaces and comes with standard spacing. One of the exciting features of this font is that it has a wide adjustment between letters to give vintage looks and simulate old printing in your designs. This all-caps typeface includes numerals, beautiful swashes, and contextual alternates, among other OpenType features. With so many features, this font is perfect for vintage logos, old-style designs, merchandise, t-shirts, branding, flyers, and so much more.

 

Jason Caps

As the name suggests, this is an all-caps font that comes with numerals, punctuations, alternate characters, and some lovely ornaments. Jason Caps font comes with standard spacing and can be optimized to a large (display/poster) size.

It is an old woodblock font design from the early 20th century. Moreover, this font comes with two font versions- standard and distressed. The distressed version of the font can be used for creating real woodblock effects.

 

Asphalt Crack – Distressed Cartoon Typeface

Inspired by modern logos of brands, Asphalt Crack is a distressed cartoon typeface suitable for posters, titles, magazines, brochures, websites, and packaging, among other design needs. It belongs to the sans-serif family of typefaces and comes with standard spacing.

It includes uppercase & lowercase characters, numerals, punctuations, standard glyphs, and multilingual support. This font can also make your designs more modern and professional.

 

Imprimo Letterpress Font

Belonging to the sans-serif family of typefaces, Imprimo is an uppercase sans-serif letterpress type font. This font comes in two styles- textured and solid- in OTF file format. Besides uppercase characters, this font includes numerals, punctuations, and symbols.

Additionally, this font comes with two spacing options- regular and condensed and it can be optimized to any size. The vintage looks of this bold distressed decorative font make it perfect for titling, among other designs.

 

Hoverage Typeface

Meet Hoverage Typeface, a letter-pressed sans-serif font that comes with modern vintage looks. This font features uppercase & lowercase letters and numerals.

It has regular spacing and can be optimized to a large (display/poster) size. Hoverage Typeface includes standard and vintage versions, making it a perfect choice for many designs.

 

Chaotic Sans – Distressed Display Sans

This is a distressed display sans font that is written casually and quickly. Chaotic Sans is a normally-spaced font that can be optimized to any size. This font includes uppercase & lowercase letters, numerals, punctuations, symbols, and more.

The letters in this font are made with brushes on Procreate and then crafted carefully into a vector format. This font’s solid characteristic and stylish look makes it suitable for homeware designs, logos, branding, packaging, invitations, headers, logotypes, posters, cartoons, comics, and more.

 

Hogsmeade font

Here’s a handwritten font with a distinct style and distressed textured letters. Hogsmeade font belongs to the serif family of typefaces and comes with standard spacing. This font includes uppercase & lowercase letters, numerals, punctuations, and more.

Each letter alternative in this font makes the typeface look unique and natural. This font is perfect for logos, headers, and other designs that need a whimsical and vintage touch.

 

The Northwest – Textured Vintage Type Family

This is a vintage font that is inspired by the vintage wild west culture and combined with a modern vintage touch. The Northwest font comes loaded with all-caps letters, numerals, punctuations, symbols, and stylistic alternates.

It includes two styles- regular textured and rounded textured, allowing you to choose between varying textures and desired effects. This font belongs to the sans-serif family of typefaces and comes with four spacing options- regular, monospace, condensed, and expanded.

With so many features, this font finds its use in logos, signage, restaurant menus, pubs, tattoo shops, bars, handmade brands, vintage styles, etc.

 

Distractor

Next on our list is a wood type and letterpress hybrid font inspired by the old letterpress styles and hand-printed lettering. Distractor is a normally-spaced bold distressed display font that is perfect for headlines and gives your designs a tactile feeling.

This font includes uppercase & lowercase letters, numerals, punctuations, and multilingual support. It belongs to the serif family of typefaces and can be optimized to any size.

 

Southbank Vintage Typeface

Say hello to a vintage font packed with four unique styles, each with an italic version and linked counterpart. Besides the four styles with italics and grungy distressed versions, Southbank also comes with multilingual support, making it suitable for a wide range of design needs.

You will require professional design software such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, or Inkscape to use the stylistic alternates in this pack.

 

Silent Creek Vintage Serif

Introducing an old-fashioned serif font inspired by the vintage letter texts from the early period of colonial North America. The imperfect ink-bleed edges of this font make you think about old books, mystery, traditional holidays, secret societies, and magic.

Silent Creek vintage font comes loaded with uppercase & lowercase characters, numerals, decorative symbols, alternates, and ligatures. Another exciting feature of this font is that you can choose between a regular or a distressed style, depending on your needs. This font is perfect for big headers, greeting cards, invitations, posters, logo designs, and quotes.

 

Hanscum Font Family

Here’s a playful geometry and nature-inspired display family sporting plenty of distressed and letterpress-style textures. Hanscum is a 23-style distressed display family font paired with a subtitle sister font.

This font has an authentic vintage look with several playful faces and ligatures. One of the exciting features of this font is that it includes a sister subtitle small font that is perfect for complementing the rest of the heavier display styles.

What’s more, the font also comes packed with extras to play with, including symbols, stylized catchwords, and swashes to accompany your layouts.

 

Malinsha Script

Are you looking for a font inspired by retro signage and modern calligraphy? Then, you should check out this font. Malinsha is a vintage brush font created from manual hand-lettering and has a bold letterform that is perfect for displays.

This font is available in regular and distressed versions and is also equipped with hundreds of alternate characters that help you create unique typographic designs.

You can use this font for logos, apparel, posters, merchandise, website, signage, badges, packaging, storefront, greeting cards, and more.

 

CPL Kirkwood

Welcome CPL Kirkwood, an all-caps distressed bold sans serif typeface that is perfect for adding a grungy, noise-ridden typographic element to your designs. This font has several variations like italics, knockout, slab, slab, and more.

The stylistic alternates in this font are compatible with professional design software such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, or Inkscape.

 

Castor Complete Family

This is a wood type and letterpress hybrid font based on grotesque letterforms. Castor is a vintage distressed display font with three options for each letter- uppercase, lowercase, and alternates. The font is complete with four styles in addition to catchwords, unique ”catchword dividers” (horizontal rules), ornaments, and a free set of extras- grunge, dividers, and bullets.

Another exciting feature of this font is that the catchwords, ornaments, and dividers are designed to complement the font and give it more versatility. The font family also comes packed with alternate letters, numerals, double-letter ligatures for realism, subscript numbers, and superscript numbers, making this font suitable for a huge range of projects.

 

Appareo Complete Font Family

Here’s another complete font family inspired by vintage books and the pages within. Appareo is an imperfect, worn serif font that gives the authentic feel of worn pages of dusty books. The font comes in three weights, and each weight of the font has a varying degree of distress.

Each weight in this font also has a custom italic version of each character. This font had five-character variations assigned through contextual alternates using Opentype features, which allows no two same letters ever to be found near each other.

Moreover, this font has a set of graphic elements, including frames, banners, arrows, and borders, in the same style and texture.

 

Authority

Authority is a font inspired by the public fonts in New York in the 1970s. This font pays tribute to the almost unnoticed but powerful effect typefaces have on our lives. It is equipped with three versions- standard, rounded, and distressed, all with standard and italic versions.

You can use this font for bold & striking headlines, subheaders, logos, or to bring historical strength to your designs.

 

Blakstone – Vintage Display Font Family

Presenting a useful distressed/vintage display family of 25 fonts that are perfect for your retro designs. Blakstone comes equipped with 25 styles like hatches, grunge, halftones, linen, shadow, inline, fills, and more, making it useful as a layered type system.

Moreover, the font also comes packed with ligatures, discretionary ligatures, superscript numbers, subscript numbers, automatic open-type fractions, and multilingual support. This font is perfect for signage, branding, clothing design, the music industry, restaurants, grocery signage, coffee shops, and so much more.

 

The Aviator Font Collection

Last on our list is a font with a type collaboration of four different vintage fonts in 100% excellent vintage style. The three typefaces in this font come in two styles- clean and aged (distressed letterpress), while the script comes in one style- clean.

In addition, Aviator also includes over 50 vintage illustrations for logo creation. You can use this font for advertising, logos, labels, posters, packaging, signage, apparel designs, etc.

 

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20+ Best Distressed Fonts for Graphic Design, Branding, and Logo Design

Today we have looked at the 20 best-distressed fonts you can use for your personal and high-stake commercial projects. The above selection of fonts is unique and distinct, which can be scaled in various end-use applications and make your designs stand out. So, what are you waiting for? Download your favorite distressed font now!