Somewhere between the straight laced ITC Avant Garde Gothic Book and the funky  Aaux Light with a little bit of dirty funk thrown in, falls Birth of a Hero. It’s a bit rough and grungy but has undeniable roots in those esteemed faces. This font is from the canadian designer known as Last Soundtrack, and comes with the usual upper and lower case letters, numbers, punctuation and some accented characters to take it around the globe.  Download the Birth of a Hero TTF and enjoy your new rough grotesk face.

Aneurysm is a super grungerific freeware truetype font from Florida based artist/comedian Rev. Josh Wilhelm, formerly of Spork Thug Typography. Aneurysm has a sort of cyber-techy glitchy edge but remains dirty and grungey which is something you may or may not want. Holy crap my brain hurts. Download the TTF.

It’s old, it’s dirty. It’s Sears Tower, from Michael Tension at Tension Type (and it isnt auto traced). This Tension Type Free Font is free to use in any and all of your personal and commercial work. Download the Sears Tower truetype font.

This one is Destroyed License Plate and it’s a nice one (free for personal use) from Paris, France based graphic designer Damien Gosset -aka-  sweeep –  Like it rough? this one is nice and dirty – and rough too. Like the title says, Destroyed License Plate. Good for headlines, titles, you know .. display use. Download the OTF font now!

Extrafine flys in from Chicagoland area designer/illustrator/typographer/printmaker/musician Miko Ramirez. It’s another handy drawn font, scritchy scratchy and all rough-hewn, has a nice rugged authentic feel to it – ya know what I mean? Not too much to think about – just Download this – extrafine ttf.

Antique typefaces can be fun, they are the origin of most of what we know today – the history of all our letterforms, but sometimes they are so hard to read and rough and dirty it makes you wonder how we got to where we are today. For a taste of some old time letter flavor, Powell Antique from prolific German shareware type designer Dieter Steffmann is a good one to choose. Download Powell Antique TTF.

Konstata is a cool one from fresh new german foundry fontomtype, and I can’t really explain it as well as it’s creator can, so here is that .. “Kon­stata is really a niche font for spe­cial use. Cre­ated for sten­cil use, Kon­stata fea­tures a set of only 10 dif­fer­ent ele­ments (aka your tem­plates) out of which you can com­pose the com­plete type­face. There­fore it bor­ders between being some­what grungy, mod­u­lar and clas­sic and greatly saves space in your back­pack when stenciling. Kon­stata is sup­posed to be sten­ciled with closed coun­ters — which is pos­sible due to the mod­u­lar sys­tem. In fact there are no bridges in it at all. It con­sists of a com­plete set of uni­case let­ters — numer­als are ment to be done als roman num­bers, ger­man umlaute are included as ue (ä), oe (ö), ae (ä) and ss (ß). Any medium will do the job but I sug­gest using fast dry­ing paint like Placka, Edding or Mon­tana 94 spray-paint to speed up the pro­cess of com­pos­ing all elements. On the key­board you will find all 10 ele­ments on the pos­i­tion of numer­als (0−9); a set of fully com­posed char­ac­ters on the pos­i­tion of lower­case let­ters (a-z incl. ü, ö, ä, ß); and every let­ter com­posed into the low­est pos­sible num­ber of parts (max­imal two, often only one) at the pos­i­tion of cap­ital letters.” Download Konstata TTF.