Distressed Toje 1 is a bold, narrow, high contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, album art, streetwear, event promos, raw, gritty, energetic, handmade, rebellious, handmade texture, urgency, attitude, impact, brushy, ragged, dry-brush, textured, jagged.
A slanted, brush-driven display face with compact proportions and assertive strokes. Letterforms show dry-brush texture, irregular edges, and occasional interior voids that create a worn, printed-on-rough-paper feel. Stems and curves vary in thickness within each glyph, with abrupt terminals and lively, slightly uneven contouring that keeps the rhythm intentionally imperfect. Counters tend to be small and roughened, and spacing reads tight and punchy, reinforcing the condensed, fast-painted character.
This font performs best as a display tool for headlines, posters, merchandise graphics, and other attention-grabbing applications where texture is a feature rather than noise. It can add impact to short phrases, brand marks, packaging callouts, and editorial openers that want a rough, handmade edge.
The overall tone is visceral and streetwise, with a DIY, poster-like urgency. Its rough texture and brisk slant suggest speed, noise, and attitude—more expressive than refined—making it feel suited to bold statements and gritty storytelling.
The design appears intended to mimic quick, forceful brush lettering and imperfect ink coverage, prioritizing expression and texture over uniformity. Its condensed, slanted build helps it feel fast and assertive while remaining readable for short-to-medium lines of display text.
The texture is consistent across caps, lowercase, and numerals, with especially expressive diagonals and cross-strokes that look like bristles catching and skipping. At smaller sizes the distressed edges may merge, so the face reads best when given room to let the texture show.