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Thirsty Rough, a Retro Script Font

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Stephanie Pleasants

A web designer and digital strategist helping women entrepreneurs create stress-free websites that attract clients and grow with their business. Through Instanticity, I share simple web design, blogging, and SEO tips to help you show up confidently online.

Retro-style letterpress typography sample for Thirsty Script.

Retro vintage fonts are so popular these days. Today I ran across Thirsty Rough, a font that combines the cool retro look with a curvy script.Yellow Design Studio has created a perfect retro script font.

Retro Thirsty Script Rough typography design.

The Thirsty Rough font family includes everything- letters, numbers, punctuation, symbols and accented characters. The features include old style numerals, ligatures and stylistic alternates, as well as multiple language support. Thirsty Rough includes four weights- light, regular, bold and black- each with four levels of distress so you can get just the worn down look you’re going for. This is currently the #15 best seller at MyFonts.com

This professional weathered font would look great on a t-shirt or a coffee shop banner. How about a call to action graphic with this retro script font on your website? I think it’d be perfect! What do you think?

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