Distressed Mupu 1 is a regular weight, narrow, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, packaging, headlines, game ui, industrial, typewritten, grunge, utilitarian, analog, add grit, evoke print, industrial tone, retro tech, monoline, rounded corners, inked, stamped, mechanical.
A compact, monoline display face built from simple, squared forms with softly rounded corners. Strokes maintain an even thickness while edges and counters show subtle wobble and ink spread, creating a rough, printed texture rather than crisp geometry. Curves are minimized in favor of straight segments and angular turns; bowls and apertures stay fairly tight, and the overall rhythm feels slightly irregular across glyphs, reinforcing a handmade/pressed look.
Best suited to short-to-medium display settings where texture is an asset: posters, titles, album or event graphics, packaging callouts, signage-inspired layouts, and themed interfaces (including games). It can also work for subheads or captions when a rugged, mechanical voice is desired, but the roughened edges make it less ideal for long-form reading at small sizes.
The texture and boxy construction evoke an analog, workshop aesthetic—part typewriter, part stencil-less rubber stamp—communicating grit and utility. It reads as pragmatic and urban, with a lightly weathered tone that suggests packaging, labeling, or equipment marking rather than polished editorial typography.
The design appears intended to blend a compact, industrial letterform system with a deliberately imperfect print impression. By combining squared geometry with distressed edges and slightly uneven drawing, it aims to deliver a tactile, “used” voice that still retains clear, structured letter shapes.
Distinctive squared counters and simplified silhouettes give the alphabet a techno-industrial flavor, while the distressed edge behavior keeps it from feeling sterile. Numerals follow the same compact, modular logic, and the overall set maintains a consistent “pressed ink” character across letters and figures.