Distressed Itbup 1 is a very bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, game titles, horror branding, event flyers, grunge, spooky, punk, vintage, raw, add texture, create tension, evoke wear, signal edge, increase impact, ragged, eroded, blotchy, roughened, uneven.
A heavy, compact letterform with strongly irregular, eroded contours and frequent notches that create a torn-ink silhouette. Strokes are thick and mostly monoline in feel, with choppy terminals and uneven shoulders that make each glyph look worn or roughly stamped. Counters are small and imperfect, sometimes partially clogged, and the overall texture is consistently mottled across caps, lowercase, and numerals. Spacing reads slightly uneven in a deliberate way, producing a lively, distressed rhythm in text.
Best suited to display settings where texture is part of the message: posters, title cards, album covers, and punchy branding that needs a distressed edge. It can work for short subheads or emphasized phrases, but the heavy texture and tight counters make it less ideal for long-form reading at small sizes.
The font projects a gritty, ominous tone—somewhere between battered print ephemera and horror-leaning display lettering. Its rough edges and blotched interiors give it an aggressive, underground energy that feels chaotic and handmade rather than polished.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold display voice with an intentionally degraded surface—evoking worn printing, torn edges, and ink spread to create immediate atmosphere and impact.
In paragraph samples the texture becomes a dominant feature, with dark color and jagged outlines creating strong visual noise. Short ascenders/descenders and dense forms keep lines feeling compact, while the distressed perimeter helps prevent large black areas from becoming too static.