First of all, we’re going to learn a bit more about this design style. Smashing magazine has published a great article called ‘The secrets of grunge design‘. They discuss the idea behind it, the current trends and they also showcase some websites that apply these techniques. This article is a great starting point to learn more about grunge designs.

Fonts

There are plenty of fonts out there that are perfect to use in your work. This is my top 10 favourite grunge fonts:

1. Birth Of A Hero

2. 28 Days Later

3. Base02

4. Bleeding Cowboys

5. Chicago House

6. Capture It

7. Hawaii Lover

8. Dirty English

9. Everyday Ghost

10. Trashed

Do you want even more grunge fonts? Maybe you should check out one of these articles:

Brushes

Grunge Brushes 3 (58 brushes)

Grunge Brushes (9 brushes)

Grunge Brushes (7 brushes)

Dumpster Brushes (8 brushes)

Grunge Brushes (11 brushes)

Grungeset (9 brushes)

Detailed Grunge Brush Pack (12 brushes)

Grungy Borders (10 brushes)

Can’t get enough of these great brushes? Well, maybe you should take a look at these collections too:

Tutorials

Dark Grunge Photo Effect

Easy Photo Grunge Effect

Grunge Style Layer Tutorial

Creating Grunge Brushes

Grunge Type Photoshop Tutorial

Worn Vintage Pop Art Design

Design A Grungy Floating Island

Create A Grunge Web Design In Photoshop

Music Logo On A Grunge Background

Quick Grungy Poster

Design A Unique Grungy Website Layout

Here are even more great photoshop tutorials:

Textures

Ultimate Grunge Pack (40 textures)

Hardcore Vintage Grunge (6 textures)

Free High Res Grungy Paper Textures (4 textures)

Grunge Textures (4 textures)

Grunge III Texture Pack (8 textures)

If you’re looking for even more grunge textures, you should check out these websites:

Website Inspiration

8 thoughts on “The Ultimate Grunge Design Toolbox”

Murray on September 21, 2009 at 5:37 pm said:

Perfect timing!

I was just going over some plans with a friend to make his portfolio and wanted to do a light grunge theme. Never created one yet, so I figured it would be fun

Great bit of resources to work with.
Kvn on September 21, 2009 at 6:48 pm said:

Hey, let me know when you’ve finished the design, I’d like to see it
Callum Chapman on September 22, 2009 at 7:19 am said:

Very nice post, going to download some of them fonts and brushes later on today
Aphrodite on July 2, 2010 at 9:16 am said:

There are a few great resources here.. There are some more good grunge fonts at http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=109.

Thanks for sharing!
mens designer t shirts on October 31, 2010 at 3:48 pm said:

I’m always looking for new fonts! I’m into the Futura series at the moment but there are some good ones here.
Brushesbee on February 5, 2011 at 9:33 am said:

collection worth a praise! thnks