Angry fonts. 10 free fierce faces for posters, merch and loud logos.
Permanent Marker, Protest Revolution and Knewave lead 10 free angry fonts chosen by eye: rough brush, stencil cuts, slanted impact capitals and worn edges, with no horror drips.
Rough brush & marker
Permanent Marker
Blunt felt-marker capitals with uneven strokes: a sign scrawled in a hurry.
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width 0.55 em · x-height 0.59 em · ink 56% · contrast 0.7 · 1 weight
Rough brush & marker
Protest Revolution
Rough brush strokes with dry, ragged edges; its description names furious, messy painted protest signs.
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width 0.48 em · x-height 0.6 em · ink 43% · 1 weight
Rough brush & marker
Knewave
Heavy, slanted brush letters with sharp flicks at the ends: forceful and fast.
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width 0.51 em · x-height 0.51 em · ink 85% · contrast 1 · 1 weight
Stencil
Black Ops One
Heavy, squared stencil letters with cut joins, after military stencils as its description says: hard and blunt.
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width 0.61 em · x-height 0.52 em · ink 70% · 1 weight
Stencil
Protest Guerrilla
Narrow, heavy stencil letters with sharp cuts, drawn from protest signs as its description says: a slogan sprayed through a stencil.
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width 0.48 em · x-height 0.57 em · ink 70% · 1 weight
Impact & comic
Bangers
Tall, slanted capitals with sharp corners, after mid-20th-century superhero comic covers as its description says: a shout or a punch.
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width 0.42 em · x-height 0.73 em · ink 67% · contrast 0.8 · 1 weight
Impact & comic
Racing Sans One
Heavy, forward-slanted letters with sharp cut corners: speed and aggression in lowercase.
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width 0.53 em · x-height 0.43 em · ink 76% · contrast 3 · 1 weight
Worn & spiked
Road Rage
Narrow, heavy letters with chipped, scraped edges; its description calls it a return to grunge.
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width 0.28 em · x-height 0.45 em · ink 68% · 1 weight
Worn & spiked
Metal Mania
Spiked, sharp-cut letters of heavy-metal album covers, as its description says: fierce without dripping horror.
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width 0.42 em · x-height 0.59 em · ink 51% · contrast 1.1 · 1 weight
Worn & spiked
Rubik Spray Paint
Heavy letters with sprayed, speckled edges: graffiti anger over a solid sans.
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width 0.61 em · x-height 0.55 em · ink 85% · contrast 1.4 · 1 weight
Angry letters look made in a hurry or with force: a rough brush, a stencil, slanted impact capitals or worn, broken edges. Not horror, and not simply the heaviest fonts. Angry is our label for these letters; the numbers on each card are measured.
Brush, stencil, impact or worn: choosing an angry font
Permanent Marker is the first pick for a flyer or a sign: blunt felt-marker capitals with an x-height of 0.59 em. For a slogan sprayed through a stencil, Protest Guerrilla is the narrower of the two stencils at 0.48 em a letter and Black Ops One the wider at 0.61 em. Bangers shouts like a comic cover and Racing Sans One leans forward for speed, both strong for a band or team name, and Road Rage is the narrowest face here, 0.28 em a letter, for a long word on a poster. Every pick comes in a single weight, so choose the face, not a bolder setting.
Rough brush & marker
Fast strokes with ragged, dry edges: a sign painted or scrawled in a hurry.
For protest signs, a punk flyer or a slogan written on a wall.
Knewave is the heaviest of the 3, with ink on 85% of the letter box, and Protest Revolution the narrowest at 0.48 em a letter.
Stencil
Heavy letters cut by stencil bridges: the look of a crate, a uniform or a sprayed slogan.
For a sprayed slogan, crate labels or a gym name.
Protest Guerrilla and Black Ops One both carry ink on 70% of the letter box, and Black Ops One is the widest at 0.61 em a letter.
Impact & comic
Heavy, slanted or squared letters with sharp corners: a shout, a punch, speed.
For a fight-night poster, a game title or a team name with speed.
Racing Sans One is the heaviest of the 2, with ink on 76% of the letter box, and Bangers the narrowest at 0.42 em a letter.
Worn & spiked
Chipped, sprayed or spiked edges over solid letters: rough, but not dripping horror.
For a metal band logo, a grunge poster or a shirt that should look worn.
Rubik Spray Paint is the heaviest of the 3, with ink on 85% of the letter box, and Road Rage the narrowest at 0.28 em a letter.
Can I use these angry fonts on posters, merch and a band logo?
| Free font | Licence | Selling | Logo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Permanent Marker | Apache 2.0 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Protest Revolution | OFL 1.1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Knewave | OFL 1.1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Black Ops One | OFL 1.1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Protest Guerrilla | OFL 1.1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bangers | OFL 1.1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Racing Sans One | OFL 1.1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Road Rage | OFL 1.1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Metal Mania | OFL 1.1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rubik Spray Paint | OFL 1.1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
- Print (posters, flyers and protest signs): yes for 9 of them under OFL 1.1, Condition 5.
- Print (posters, flyers and protest signs): yes for Permanent Marker under Apache 2.0, Section 2.
- Selling (shirts, merch and stickers sold): yes for 9 of them under OFL 1.1, Condition 5; the font file itself may not be sold on its own (Condition 1).
- Selling (shirts, merch and stickers sold): yes for Permanent Marker under Apache 2.0, Section 2.
- Logo (a band, gym or team name): yes for 9 of them under OFL 1.1, Condition 5; OFL FAQ: logos are allowed.
- Logo (a band, gym or team name): yes for Permanent Marker under Apache 2.0, Section 2; the licence grants no rights to the licensor’s own trademarks (Section 6).
- Read the OFL 1.1 text
- Read the Apache 2.0 text
Questions about angry fonts
Which angry font should I start with?
Permanent Marker (rough brush & marker), Black Ops One (stencil), Bangers (impact & comic), and Road Rage (worn & spiked) open the groups. Permanent Marker heads the page, with letters 0.55 em wide on average, an x-height of 0.59 em and ink on 56% of the letter box.
Can I print angry fonts on merch I sell?
Yes: 9 of them are under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and Permanent Marker is under the Apache License 2.0; both licences allow posters, flyers and protest signs, shirts, merch and stickers sold, and a band, gym or team name.
Are angry fonts the same as horror fonts?
No. The 10 here look forceful rather than frightening: rough brush, stencil cuts, slanted capitals and worn edges. Dripping, creeping letters belong to the Halloween fonts page, and no Halloween pick and no face in the lab’s spooky style stands on this one.
Which of these angry fonts is the heaviest?
Rubik Spray Paint, with ink on 85% of the letter box, level with Knewave; Protest Revolution is the lightest of the 10 angry fonts, at 43%.
How were these angry fonts chosen?
Faces Google tags as distressed or stencil and the lab’s graffiti faces, without cute, horror, blackletter, script and comic faces. A pool to look through, not a measure of anger: every pick is chosen by eye. 36 fonts of the catalogue pass that rule. We set “Out of my way!” in each of them, and in other candidates, on contact sheets, then chose 10 different families by eye: 6 from the pool and 4 added by hand, with 40 candidates left out for a stated reason.
Beyond angry fonts: other moods and jobs
- Friendly fontsNunito and Quicksand first; 41% ink on average, against 67% for angry fonts10 fonts
- Cute & playful fontsFredoka and Gluten first; 49% ink on average, against 67% for angry fonts11 fonts
- Retro fontsCaprasimo and Shrikhand first; 64% ink on average, against 67% for angry fonts11 fonts
- Fonts for Cricut and SilhouetteAlso lists Black Ops One and Bangers, picked there by a measured rule12 fonts
- Fonts for HalloweenRubik Wet Paint and Eater first, picked by a measured rule, not by eye as the angry fonts are8 fonts
- Fonts for YouTube thumbnailsBarlow Condensed and Oswald first, picked by a measured rule, not by eye as the angry fonts are12 fonts
- All fonts by mood