Grungy Old Typewriter — Ink, dust, and honest mistakes.
Real type rendering live — not a picture. Type your own words below.
I built Grungy Old Typewriter from the real thing — a worn-out machine that never quite hit the paper clean. Clogged letters, broken edges, ink that landed where it wanted to. That's the kind of texture you can't fake with a filter.
It comes in six styles so you can dial in exactly how rough you want it. Smooth is lightly used. Regular and Fat carry the weight. Ghost is faded and under-inked, like the ribbon was on its last legs. Starved is barely hanging on. And there's an Italic for when you need a little lean.
I reach for it on posters, packaging, band merch, zines, a gritty pull-quote — anything that should look hand-stamped and a little bit dangerous.
Grungy Old Typewriter comes in six styles, so you can pick how beat-up the type looks instead of settling for one level of grime. Smooth is lightly used, Regular and Fat carry real weight, Ghost is faded like a dying ribbon, Starved is barely hanging on, and there's an Italic. All six share the same letter shapes, so you can mix them in one layout.
Yes. Grungy Old Typewriter is based on two typed letters, each two pages long and dated 1901. The wear and uneven ink of those pages is kept inside each letter shape, with no paper stains or stray marks around it, so you can add your own background texture or leave the type clean.
The styles of Grungy Old Typewriter differ in ink, not design. Smooth has clean edges. Regular has the classic clogged, broken strike. Fat is heavier, for headlines that need to hold up from across the room. Ghost is under-inked and pale. Starved is the most eroded, with letters breaking apart. Italic adds a lean to the Regular texture.
No. Grungy Old Typewriter keeps the texture of a worn machine but uses proportional spacing, so narrow letters like i and l don't leave the gaps a real typewriter would. That makes headlines and logos set tighter and read better. If you need strict typewriter columns for a fake form or a screenplay look, use a monospaced font for that part.
Yes. Grungy Old Typewriter covers the accented letters of Western European languages, including French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and the Nordic languages. It also has the euro, pound and yen signs, curly quotes, en and em dashes and an ellipsis, so it works for multilingual packaging and posters.
Mix the styles. Set most of the text in Grungy Old Typewriter Regular, then switch the odd word or letter to Ghost or Starved, so the ink looks uneven the way a real ribbon runs dry. Because all six styles share the same shapes and spacing, the swaps don't jump. Loosen the letter spacing slightly for a more mechanical feel.
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