Grade

Grade font by Dave Kellam is a free eroded display typeface that looks like it’s melting off the page. Thick black strokes break into jagged ripples, as if the letters were dragged through acid or glitched on a damaged VHS tape. The texture is dense and inky, so every word feels noisy, unstable, and a little dangerous—great when you want type that looks less designed and more corroded by time or signal interference.

Using Grade, headlines instantly pick up a distorted, underground energy that’s hard to fake with filters alone. This free font works beautifully for horror posters, glitchy album covers, experimental zines, rave flyers, and edgy sci‑fi titles. Keep it big and bold, then pair Grade with a very clean geometric sans or system font for body text so the chaos stays where it’s most effective: in your main titles.