Grunge
グランジ / 1990s / Style / Counterculture
Uses dirt, tears and wear as resistance to the neatly managed screen.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Scuffing
- Tears
- Disordered type
- Low-quality copies
Best used for
- Body heat for music and street culture
- Deliberately breaking the look of a finished product
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Decayed sans, typewriter faces
- Composition
- Overlap and crop; keep alignment only in places
- Material
- Dirty paper, grain, low chroma plus one accent
- Caution
- Texture overlays alone feel dated. Run the logic of wear through photo, type and margin alike.
- Further study
- David Carson / Art Chantry
Related entries
- Swiss Punk Typography (スイス・パンク・タイポグラフィ)Shared effects: Rebellion.Compare Grunge and Swiss Punk Typography
- Web 1.0 (ウェブ1.0)Shared effects: Nostalgia / Rebellion.Compare Grunge and Web 1.0
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