Distressed Fumed 7 is a regular weight, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, book covers, album art, halloween, spooky, vintage, handmade, grungy, macabre, aged print, horror theme, handmade feel, poster impact, texture emphasis, roughened, blotchy, inked, chiseled, worn.
A distressed display serif with irregular, hand-cut contours and pronounced stroke contrast. Stems and bowls are unevenly filled, with blotchy interior voids and broken edges that mimic worn ink or rough printing. Serifs are wedge-like and inconsistent, and curves often show lumpy modulation rather than smooth geometry. The texture is consistent across uppercase, lowercase, and numerals, producing a lively, slightly chaotic rhythm and noticeably varied glyph widths.
Well-suited to short, high-impact settings such as posters, titles, packaging accents, and cover work where a worn, atmospheric voice is desirable. It can also work for pull quotes or section headers in themed editorial layouts, but is less appropriate for long passages where the heavy texture may reduce comfort and clarity.
The overall tone is dark and theatrical, evoking old posters, pulp covers, and Halloween or horror ephemera. Its handmade roughness reads as intentionally weathered and imperfect, giving text a gritty, uncanny energy rather than a polished literary feel.
The design appears intended to simulate aged, imperfect print or hand-rendered lettering with deliberate erosion, creating a vintage-horror display voice that feels physical and tactile rather than digitally precise.
At text sizes the interior speckling and edge wear become a dominant feature, so the face reads best when allowed enough size and contrast to preserve counters and keep letters from visually clogging. Uppercase forms feel especially bold and iconic, while the lowercase retains the same distressed texture and adds a more eccentric, storybook cadence.