Typophile

Aggressive, masculine fonts?

I'm looking for fonts that convey an aggresively masculine look, the sorts of fonts that really don't work for much outside of logos for sports teams and motorcycle dealerships. The only thing I can think of right now is Larabie's Ethnocentric,with terminals that look a bit like razor blades. Any ideas?

At least a dozen House Industries faces fall into this category. Start with United and Simian.

Real men don't know what WTF a font is.
Just take Arial or whatever and beat the crap out of it.

Ha, Nick. Here's another one I've found: Canada Type's Fury.

So what you really want is a go-faster font, like Spaceport.
Yeah, they use that for So You Think You Can Dance.
Real guy stuff, eh.

Nick, remember even burly, virile fonts can be kidnapped and dru---convinced to do a drag show.

«El futuro es una línea tan fina que apenas nos damos cuenta de pintarla nosotros mismos». (La Luz Oscura, por Javier Guerrero)

I made this one as a commission a while back, called Defense:

edit: Thanks, Nick

jpeg, png are good formats.
no spaces in file name.

even burly, virile fonts can be kidnapped and dru—-

I'll take a shot of what they gave Warren :-)

How will you be using it? What is the content or even the words of the headline?

ChrisL

I don't think he gets to keep her, Nick :-P

ChrisL

It's not for a specific project, there have just been a few times when I wished I'd had some fonts like what I'd see in sports team logos, like:

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