Distressed Lohu 1 is a bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, album art, packaging, editorial, gritty, vintage, industrial, noisy, rugged, aged print, raw texture, retro utility, grunge display, slab serif, typewriter, rough edge, blotchy, worn ink.
A heavy slab-serif design with typewriter-like construction and sturdy, mostly monoline strokes. The letterforms show uneven, eroded contours and occasional ink-bleed blobbing at corners and terminals, creating a consistently rough silhouette. Counters are relatively compact, apertures stay open enough for recognition, and spacing feels robust and workmanlike, with small irregularities in stroke edges that simulate worn printing.
Best suited to short-to-medium headline settings where the distressed texture can be appreciated—posters, cover art, labels, and editorial display. It can work for pull quotes or section headers in print-style layouts, but the rough edges may feel busy at very small sizes or in long passages.
The overall tone is gritty and analog, evoking aged paper, imperfect impressions, and utilitarian signage. Its rough texture adds urgency and attitude, reading as vintage and industrial rather than polished or corporate.
The design appears intended to mimic worn typewriter or letterpress output, combining sturdy slab forms with intentionally degraded edges and uneven ink coverage. The goal is to deliver strong readability while adding a tactile, aged-print character for thematic display work.
Texture is the main stylistic driver: edges appear chipped and slightly swollen, with varying amounts of roughness from glyph to glyph. The uppercase has a strong, poster-like presence, while the lowercase keeps a compact, readable rhythm that still carries the same distressed ink character.