Skratch Punk font by Robin Nicholas, Patricia Saunders of Nik Coley is a free eroded display typeface that looks like it’s been hacked together with photocopiers, box cutters, and spray paint. Chunky, tightly packed letters are ripped with scratches and gaps, so the black shapes feel loud, chaotic, and a little dangerous-like a band flyer stapled to a brick wall. Despite the destruction, the overall rhythm stays surprisingly readable, especially at big sizes.
Using Skratch Punk, you can push attitude straight into gig posters, album covers, streetwear graphics, skateboard decks, zines, and protest visuals. This free font thrives when you blow it up huge and let the distressed texture really bite into the page or screen. For supporting text, pair it with a plain, narrow sans serif to keep the noise where it belongs: in the headline.
Monotype Drawing Office 1982. A contemporary sans serif design, Arial contains more humanist characteristics than many of its predecessors and as such is more in tune with the mood of the last decades of the twentieth century. The overall treatment of curves is softer and fuller than in most industrial-style sans serif faces. Terminal strokes are cut on the diagonal which helps to give the face a less mechanical appearance. Arial is an extremely versatile family of typefaces which can be used with equal success for text setting in reports, presentations, magazines etc, and for display use in newspapers, advertising and promotions.
Extended font information
Platforms supported
PlatformEncoding
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only
Font details
Created1991-11-21
Revision2
Glyph count669
Units per Em2048
Embedding rightsEmbedding for permanent installation