Distressed Gobo 5 is a light, narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, book covers, halloween, game ui, handmade, spooky, rustic, playful, witchy, handcrafted look, aged texture, thematic mood, analog grit, brushy, ragged, jagged, inked, scratchy.
A hand-drawn, brush-ink text face with irregular, ragged stroke edges and frequent tapering into sharp terminals. Strokes show visible pressure variation and dry-brush texture, creating slight breaks and dark ink pools at turns and joins. The forms are mostly simple and open, with rounded bowls contrasted by occasional pointed spikes (notably in diagonals and some terminals), giving an uneven but consistent rhythm across the set. Numerals follow the same rough, inked construction, with clear silhouettes and slightly quirky proportions that reinforce the handmade feel.
Best suited to display use where texture and personality are desired—posters, title treatments, packaging, event flyers, and themed graphics (especially seasonal or horror/fantasy). It can work for short blurbs or pull quotes at comfortable sizes, but is most effective when given room for the distressed edges to remain legible.
The overall tone reads as eerie and craft-made—like lettering from a spellbook, haunted poster, or DIY horror flyer. Its imperfect outlines and scratchy finish add a sense of age, mystery, and low-fi authenticity, while the friendly, rounded structure keeps it from feeling overly aggressive.
The design appears intended to simulate quick brush lettering with a worn, dry-ink finish, prioritizing atmosphere and handmade character over typographic regularity. Its consistent roughness suggests a deliberate distressed aesthetic aimed at narrative and theme-driven applications.
Spacing appears lively and slightly uneven in text, which contributes to the organic flow but can reduce crispness at small sizes. The texture is prominent even in larger sample lines, where the rough edges and tapered ends become a defining graphic feature.