Working Grunge Fonts Into Your Design

Now that you've found all these fun fonts, what are you going to do with them? Working them into traditional design can be difficult, so it's time to learn about overall grunge design. If you think it's all about simply dirt and darkness this article should set you straight. Sometimes just a few pieces of grunge can make your bright design more realistic and interesting.

Along with your fonts, you're going to want to pick up some grunge brushes to create your very own grunge backgrounds. But it's much more fun to create your own using this tutorial. Or this one. Or this one. You get the idea.

Another excellent use of these new brushes is to distress your own type. In Photoshop or an equivalent image editor, place your type on its own layer. Paint on a mask with your new brush, or use the eraser tool set to your brush and single-click the brush over the sections you want to distressed with the opacity set to differing levels. The airbrush tool also renders interesting results, as does the use of several different brushes over one typeface.