Snow City Grunge

Grunge is the only style here that uses texture as the subject. The plate is desaturated and damaged, the accent is the single clean thing in the frame, and the contrast between the two is what carries the composition.

It is the right choice for serious crime roleplay, gang servers and anything positioning itself as gritty, and it is the wrong choice for anything that wants to look welcoming. It is also the hardest style to keep legible, because texture competes with type at every size.

Practically: grunge plates need a heavier outline weight on the wordmark than the other three styles, which is why the default stroke setting is higher on these designs. Turning it down makes the lettering sink into the texture.

See every grunge design.

The only high-key family in the catalogue: the tonal range sits in the upper half instead of the lower, which inverts the usual lettering problem. A dark wordmark works here and a bright one does not, so the defaults use a heavier carbon treatment rather than chrome. Worth knowing before you set a pale accent.

The same scene is also drawn in anime, painted and photoreal.

Cyan has high luminance, so it reads at tiny sizes and fails white-text contrast checks. Use it as the mark and the ribbon rather than as a fill behind text, and pair it with a pale gold horizon so the lettering has somewhere warm to sit. The combination is the most legible in this catalogue at 96 pixels.

See every cyan design.