Distressed Fimi 7 is a regular weight, narrow, high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, album art, posters, game ui, event flyers, grunge, occult, handmade, raw, edgy, distressed display, hand-lettered look, dark atmosphere, texture emphasis, scratchy, angular, jagged, inked, uneven.
A jagged, hand-rendered display face with sharp, wedge-like terminals and visibly irregular stroke edges. Forms are built from narrow, angular strokes with abrupt turns and occasional tapering, creating a carved or scratched look rather than smooth pen curves. Counters are small and sometimes faceted (notably in O/Q/0 and 8/9), and spacing feels uneven in a deliberate, handmade way. The lowercase is compact and spiky, with simple single-storey constructions and short extenders, reinforcing a tight, wiry texture across lines of text.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as horror or thriller titles, album/merch graphics, posters, and themed event flyers. It can also work for game interfaces or chapter headers where a distressed, hand-cut feel supports worldbuilding, but it’s less appropriate for long-form reading due to its rough edges and uneven rhythm.
The overall tone is gritty and ritualistic, with a punk zine and horror-prop sensibility. Its rough contours and knife-cut geometry suggest urgency and tension, giving text a dark, handmade energy that reads as more expressive than polite.
The design appears intended to emulate quick, forceful hand lettering—somewhere between scratched ink and carved marks—while remaining legible enough for punchy display text. It prioritizes atmosphere and texture over typographic polish, aiming for a distinctive, unsettling presence in headlines.
Many glyphs lean toward geometric, rune-like simplification (diamond-like bowls, triangular joins), while still preserving basic Latin silhouettes. Numerals share the same scratched texture and angular construction, helping headings and dates maintain a consistent, distressed voice.