: Where can I find fonts scanned from books? I'm sure this has to exists but I can't find it. I'm looking for fonts scanned from books, comic books or magazines. I want them not to be perfect,

@Odierno310

I found some ! I think my favorite is Appareo.



Some others can be found in the Historical Fonts category of FontSpring.

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@Vandalay110

There is no font that can do what you want... my apologies.
But there is some tricks to do (for print & web project).



If you want to use it for a website, this is not a good idea... but you can use this CSS properties :

-webkit-background-clip: text;
-webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;


This is not supported by every browser as you can see :





If this is for a print project, you can add texture to your font in Photoshop with this, by double clicking your font layer :



OR

Use an image to make your font textured, like this :





I hope it will help you,
cheers.

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@Kevin459

If I'm understanding your question, then what you are looking for doesn't exist. Fonts are vector objects by definition which means that they have hard edges and can only include details that have hard edges. The kind up subtle, natural degradation that you are looking for would have a photographic quality, like a scan, as you suggest.

The route to the look that you want is more likely to come from superimposing an image with a bit of 'dirt' in it to degrade the text underneath or by rasterising the the text and applying filters to it (such as noise or blur).

You could of course go old school: print the text out, crumple the paper, wipe it across a dirty floor, whatever gives you the level of imperfection that you are looking for and then scan it back in.

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