Distressed Inlat 2 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height, monospaced font.
Keywords: posters, album covers, horror titles, zines, game ui, grunge, typewriter, punk, horror, zine, aged print, lo-fi texture, diy attitude, dramatic impact, rough, ragged, inked, blotty, eroded.
A heavy, monolinear serif design with a stamped, rough-printed look. Letterforms are built from sturdy verticals and blunt, slab-like terminals, but the contours are intentionally uneven, with jagged edges, nicks, and occasional blobby ink spread that makes counters and joins feel imperfect. The texture is consistent across caps, lowercase, and figures, giving the face a uniform distressed rhythm while keeping the underlying structure clear and upright.
Best suited to display applications where texture is part of the message: posters, cover art, event graphics, packaging, and title treatments. It can also work for short UI labels or in-game headings when a gritty, printed-on-paper atmosphere is desired, but the rough edges can become busy in long passages or at very small sizes.
The overall tone is gritty and analog, evoking worn typewriter strikes, photocopied zines, and inked stencils that have seen repeated use. It reads as confrontational and raw, with a slightly ominous, horror-adjacent edge thanks to the torn silhouettes and dark massing.
The design appears intended to mimic a battered, ink-heavy printing process—like a typewriter or letterpress impression pushed past clean reproduction—while keeping a straightforward, upright skeleton for practical legibility. Its primary goal is to deliver an immediate distressed, DIY character without drifting into illegible abstraction.
Despite the heavy distressing, the glyphs retain recognizable classic shapes and stable alignment, which helps maintain readability. The strongest visual signature is the irregular perimeter and interior bite marks, which create a lively, noisy texture in both short headlines and repeated text.