Distressed Gegam 8 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, album art, event flyers, grunge, playful, handmade, quirky, vintage, add texture, evoke print, humanize type, create energy, speckled, roughened, inked, weathered, irregular.
A slanted, casual serif with uneven, hand-drawn contours and a heavily textured interior. Strokes are moderately thick with slightly wobbly baselines and lively, inconsistent curves that give letters a drawn-with-ink feel. Serifs are small and soft-edged rather than crisp, and counters are often punctuated by speckling that creates a porous, printed texture. Overall spacing and letter widths vary, enhancing an organic rhythm while keeping the alphabet readable.
Best suited to short-to-medium display text where texture is an asset: posters, titles, packaging callouts, and branding accents. It can work for brief paragraphs at comfortable sizes, but the interior speckling and rough outlines make it less ideal for small UI text or dense editorial settings.
The font feels gritty yet lighthearted, combining a worn, analog texture with an informal, friendly tone. Its speckled fill and rough edges suggest aged printing or distressed signage, while the italic slant adds motion and a conversational energy.
Likely designed to deliver an intentionally worn, handmade look that reads like printed ink on rough stock. The goal appears to be adding character and tactility—evoking vintage or DIY production—while maintaining clear letter recognition for expressive display typography.
Uppercase forms stay relatively sturdy and upright in structure, while lowercase shows more personality through varied widths and more irregular bowls and terminals. Numerals share the same distressed fill and soft, imperfect edges, matching the text color and texture consistently across the set.