Distressed Innof 14 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, album art, packaging, book covers, weathered, handmade, gritty, vintage, macabre, aged print feel, atmospheric grit, vintage texture, spooky tone, rough edges, blotchy, inky, textured, chipped.
A distressed serif with a heavy, inked silhouette and consistently roughened contours. Strokes show ragged, chipped edges and occasional interior bite-marks that mimic worn letterpress or degraded stencil-like printing. The serifs are short and blocky, with softened corners and irregular terminals that vary subtly from glyph to glyph, giving the alphabet a handmade, uneven rhythm. Counters tend to be compact and slightly misshapen, and the figures follow the same worn, blotched texture for a cohesive set.
Works best for display settings such as posters, titles, and prominent pull quotes where the worn texture can carry the voice. It also suits packaging, labels, and editorial cover work that aims for an antique, gritty, or horror-leaning aesthetic. For longer text, it will be most comfortable at larger sizes with generous spacing.
The overall tone feels aged and gritty, like text pulled from an old broadside, a weathered label, or a piece of ephemera that has been handled and reprinted too many times. Its rough texture adds tension and drama, leaning toward ominous, spooky, and rustic impressions rather than polished formality.
Likely designed to provide a classic serif framework while injecting strong surface wear—evoking aged print, rough ink spread, and distressed reproduction. The goal appears to be instant atmosphere and period flavor without losing the basic readability of traditional letterforms.
In paragraph use, the distressed texture becomes a dominant feature, producing a dark typographic color with noticeable speckling and edge breakup at every letter. The irregularity reads as intentional and consistent, but it will visually accumulate in longer passages, making it better suited to larger sizes or shorter copy where the texture can be appreciated.