Distressed Ralus 5 is a regular weight, normal width, high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, headlines, merch, stickers, handmade, rustic, playful, quirky, grunge, handmade feel, printed wear, casual display, personality, brushy, blotchy, weathered, rounded, wobbly.
A casual, hand-rendered roman with rounded terminals and noticeably uneven stroke edges. Letterforms are built from simplified, chunky shapes with a lightly wobbled baseline and irregular curves, as if painted or stamped with a dry brush. Counters are generally open and friendly, while the distressed texture creates speckling and small voids along strokes, especially in bowls and at joins. Overall spacing is straightforward and readable, with a lively, inconsistent rhythm that reinforces the handmade feel.
Best suited to display settings where texture and personality are desirable—posters, packaging, labels, merchandise graphics, and short headlines. It can add a handmade or worn-print accent to branding and social graphics, but the distressed detail and irregularities may be less effective for long text or very small sizes.
The tone is informal and characterful, combining a friendly, cartoon-like simplicity with a worn, ink-rubbed grit. It reads as crafty and approachable rather than serious, with just enough roughness to suggest DIY production, vintage printing, or imperfect signage.
The design appears intended to deliver an approachable, hand-painted look with built-in wear, evoking imperfect printing and craft-made lettering while keeping silhouettes bold enough for display impact.
The distressing is integrated into the strokes rather than applied as a separate overlay, producing varied edge breakup from glyph to glyph. Curves and diagonals retain strong silhouettes at display sizes, while the interior scuffing becomes more prominent as size increases.