Distressed Hodas 12 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
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A rough, hand-rendered sans with brush-like strokes and visibly irregular contours. Letterforms show uneven stroke edges, occasional interior voids, and inconsistent terminal shapes that mimic dry ink or worn printing. Proportions are generally compact with slightly variable character widths, giving lines a lively, jittery rhythm while staying largely upright and readable at display sizes.
Best suited to short display text where texture and attitude are an asset, such as posters, music artwork, event flyers, packaging accents, and social graphics. It can also work for bold pull quotes or section headers when paired with a cleaner body font to balance readability.
The overall tone feels gritty and energetic, with a DIY, zine-like attitude. Its distressed texture and casual construction suggest immediacy and imperfection, lending a rebellious, street-level character that reads as bold and informal rather than refined.
The design appears intended to deliver an expressive distressed look that feels hand-painted or roughly printed, prioritizing character and atmosphere over typographic polish. Its consistent roughness across caps, lowercase, and numerals suggests it was drawn to provide a cohesive, high-impact voice for themed or gritty visual systems.
Curves and counters often appear pinched or partially filled, enhancing the distressed effect; round letters like O/Q show especially prominent roughening. The numerals and lowercase maintain the same hand-drawn texture, helping mixed-case and alphanumeric settings feel cohesive. Tight spacing and heavy texture can visually clump in smaller sizes, so generous sizing or tracking can help preserve clarity.