Distressed Nudud 2 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height, monospaced font.
Keywords: posters, zines, album art, packaging, headlines, gritty, vintage, raw, industrial, analog, typewritten feel, aged print, grunge texture, analog utility, typewriter, roughened, inked, weathered, uneven.
A monospaced, typewriter-like design with simple, utilitarian letterforms and slightly rounded terminals. Strokes are consistently substantial, but their edges are irregular and broken up, creating a worn, ink-bleed/rough-print texture across both stems and bowls. Curves remain fairly geometric while the outlines wobble subtly, producing a steady rhythm typical of fixed-width fonts but with deliberately inconsistent contours. Counters are open and clear, and the overall proportions stay compact and workmanlike, maintaining legibility despite the distressed surface.
Well-suited for posters, zines, flyers, and title treatments where a distressed, typewritten voice adds atmosphere. It also fits packaging accents, labels, and editorial pull quotes that benefit from a gritty, reproduced-on-paper look. For long passages, it works best at comfortable sizes where the texture doesn’t overwhelm the letter shapes.
The font conveys a rough, analog tone—like stamped labels, aged carbon copies, or photocopied notes. Its texture reads as imperfect and handmade-by-machine, giving text a gritty, documentary feel with a slightly edgy, underground character.
The design appears intended to merge the predictable spacing and straightforward construction of monospaced type with a deliberately degraded print texture. The goal is to evoke mechanical typing and reproduction artifacts while keeping an even, grid-friendly cadence for setting short bursts of text.
The distressing is distributed across the whole glyph rather than isolated to corners, so large sizes emphasize the texture while smaller sizes read more like a dirty print. Numerals and punctuation match the same roughened treatment, supporting cohesive setting in blocks of copy.