Resources: fonts, tutorials, icons, textures and templates for a fantastic grunge style
It’s dirty, unorganized, and wrinkled-up. Still, it continues to please. If someone thought that grunge was a style destined to fade away, they were wrong by a long shot. Grunge continues to live on without any sign of fading away in the galleries.
Grunge was first embraced by artists leaning towards the creative and eccentric style. Nowadays, grunge has been incorporated seamlessly into various projects and websites such as: e-commerce, hotel and restaurant websites, and personal blogs.
It seems that this trend will stay-on throughout 2010, as well as the other stylish watercolors and doodles.
In this article we will present you with a list of grunge features that we have gathered: fonts, brushes, textures, templates, icons…getting curious? Let’s take a look at them.
Inspiration
If you’re not familiar with this style, you might run into some problems at the very beginning. Grunge design is a bit like working with different colors and palettes so you should let your creativity run wild and see what happens. And, if you still need some inspiration, you could take a look at this list of websites.
Textures & Background
A great website is created beginning with the background: this is one of the first graphic items we will need to address. Effects such as metallic ones, wooden, fabric-like, brushes: here you can find a collection of textures and patterns en vogue right now with the grunge style. Also, you can check out many others by going here.
Brushes
Brushes play a fundamental role in our graphic project: without them it would be impossible to create great looking effects. So, here’s a small collection of brushes that can embellish all of your grunge projects.
Fonts
We have mentioned before that a good typography is essential in every graphic project. Using grunge we can adopt and put to use some of the more picturesque and original fonts available online. There’s only one rule we need to follow: grunge begets grunge, so there’s no place for modern fonts or even worse, fonts that are elegant and calligraphic.
You can find a myriad of free grunge fonts, but the ones below are, in our opinion, truly unique. And, they help make your work unique.
Bleeding Cowboys
Marcelle
Neo Print
Trashed
Trashco
Great Thunder
Heroin07
Frakturika
Broken Ghost
Desperado
Hawaii Lover
Gasmask
You still want more? Here you can find another 100 of them!
Icons
Icons enrich our blogs and they are a must in modern-looking layouts that are characterized by a web 2.0 graphic style: one just can’t say no to icons. Nowadays one can find icons of every shape and form: these are in our case modeled after the grunge style.
Social Grunge Icons
Distortion
Grungy asphalt
Old icons
Litho System
Scratch Icons
Tutorials
Do you need to create a website that literally “oozes grunge” from all sides, but you have no idea how to manage the various graphic elements? Take a look at these tutorials which will help you become familiar with this style and to learn a trick or two in the meanwhile.
Header in stile grunge
Layout grunge cartoon
Ultimate grunge design
Grunge web design
Grunge blog design
…you want to measure yourself even more? Check this out and have fun!
Free Templates
Did you try to create a website but didn’t obtain the desired results? Or do you have no time to tinker with this, but still want to have a grunge-style website? Online you can find some great-looking free templates.
….if you have a static website:
Grunge Superstar
Grunge template
….or if you’re using wordpress:
Creative Art Theme
Blak Magic
Mystic Grunge
Cellar Heat
Color Paper
…..this is all for now! What about yourself? Are you a fan of the urban grunge style, or do you prefer trends that are a bit more minimalist and organized? Tells us what you think!
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Hi! These are great stuffs! I am personally a fan of grunge themes and been longing to have one. I really like the madfrog design website, the functionality and the design are so awesome. Thanks for sharing this and I will definitely take some of the ideas here in my blog.
Hi Rikki, welcome to YIW!
Now i’m curious, i want to see your new blog in grunge style
Take care, S.
I am amazed!
This is a superb collection for inspiration.
I think I just built three websites….
Hi Jollymoon, welcome and thanks for your kind comment
Hi Sarah, Thanks for the warm welcome..
Yeah, I really hope and will let you know once it is done. hehe..
Great grunge fonts.
I think i will use some on my stop at http://www.teezy.eu
Thanks for the info
This is a superb collection for inspiration.