Distressed Pudub 9 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, book covers, headlines, game titles, packaging, gothic, spooky, vintage, rugged, storybook, antique flavor, horror tone, aged print, dramatic display, thematic branding, roughened, inked, notched, angular, blackletter-leaning.
A stylized serif design with blackletter-leaning forms and a deliberately rough, ink-bitten edge. Strokes are fairly compact with tight interior spaces, and terminals often end in sharp, wedged points or small notches that suggest worn printing or carved letterforms. Curves are slightly irregular, with intermittent bulges and bites that create a textured silhouette while maintaining a consistent, readable structure across the alphabet and figures. Capitals feel emblematic and vertical, while the lowercase keeps a steady rhythm with narrow proportions and crisp, angular joins.
Best suited to display settings such as posters, title treatments, book covers, and themed branding where a vintage-gothic atmosphere is desired. It can work for short passages or pull quotes when set with generous size and spacing so the distressed edges don’t overwhelm fine details.
The overall tone is darkly theatrical and antique, evoking horror titles, medieval or occult ephemera, and weathered broadsides. Its distressed texture adds grit and unease without collapsing into chaos, giving text a handmade, timeworn character.
The design appears intended to blend old-world, blackletter-influenced shapes with a worn print texture, delivering a dramatic historic voice that feels aged and tactile. It prioritizes mood and silhouette impact while preserving enough regularity for coherent word shapes.
In running text, the texture becomes a unifying grain across lines, and the pointed serifs and notched terminals create a flickering, cut-paper rhythm. Numerals follow the same rugged treatment, reading as traditional figures with roughened contours that match the letterforms.