The strokes look pulled fast with a loaded brush: edges fray where the bristles ran dry, terminals blunt out into shapes closer to geometry than calligraphy. That collision of brushed script and grunge is what carries Aguante, a display face drawn by Germano H. R. It has the loose confidence of a wall tag, with enough structure underneath to stay legible once you set it large.

Display type like this earns its keep at size, so give it room. The Regular weight suits skate and streetwear tee graphics, comic panel titles and sound effect lettering, gig posters for basement venue shows, and hot sauce or craft beer labels that should look mixed by hand rather than approved by committee. Its hand-drawn side keeps the shapes from feeling mechanical, even where the construction turns geometric. Language coverage runs past 234 Latin-based languages, which matters more than designers expect when a campaign ships in several markets and the headline has to hold its shape with accents stacked on it.

Keep everything around it quiet. A plain low-contrast sans at text sizes, something with open counters and no personality of its own, gives the eye somewhere to rest and lets Aguante carry the noise on its own. Aguante is free under an open Creative Commons license, and the files download directly from this page.