Creative agency gets revenge on vandals... with a font

Image of a graffiti font on a building
(Image credit: Dude London)

Revenge is a dish best served... creatively. Or at least it is when you're a creative agency who's office has been defaced.

While the best graffiti fonts are perfect for the right project, most people don't want them scrawled over the face of their building. So DUDE London's offices got tagged, it decided to exact typographic revenge. It appropriated the spray-painted lettering and made it available to all. And so the concept of a 'revenge font' is born.

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Joe Foley

Joe is a regular freelance journalist and editor at Creative Bloq. He writes news, features and buying guides and keeps track of the best equipment and software for creatives, from video editing programs to monitors and accessories. A veteran news writer and photographer, he now works as a project manager at the London and Buenos Aires-based design, production and branding agency Hermana Creatives. There he manages a team of designers, photographers and video editors who specialise in producing visual content and design assets for the hospitality sector. He also dances Argentine tango.

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