Distressed Nibat 3 is a regular weight, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, title cards, book covers, editorial accents, packaging, vintage, gritty, noir, tactile, offbeat, aged print, typewriter voice, grunge texture, period mood, typewriter, roughened, inked, worn, organic.
A monospaced, typewriter-like serif with roughened outlines and uneven ink traps that create a consistently worn imprint. Strokes are generally sturdy with moderate contrast, and the serifs read as blunt slabs that break up and chip at the edges rather than terminating cleanly. Counters stay relatively open, while interior shapes and joins show small dents and wobble, producing a printed, slightly dirty texture. Spacing and alignment feel disciplined and upright, but the letterforms keep a hand-pressed irregularity from glyph to glyph.
Well suited for display and short-to-medium text where a distressed, typewritten voice is desirable: film or game title cards, posters, book covers, and thematic pull quotes. It can also work for packaging and branding that want an analog, printed patina, especially when paired with clean supporting type for hierarchy.
The overall tone is archival and gritty, evoking aged documents, carbon copies, and imperfect mechanical printing. The distressed texture adds tension and atmosphere, leaning toward noir, crime, and analog ephemera rather than polished editorial typography. It feels utilitarian but characterful, with a deliberate roughness that reads as authentic and tactile.
The design appears aimed at recreating the look of mechanically set type that has been degraded by time, pressure, or imperfect inking. It balances structured, familiar typewriter proportions with controlled irregularities to deliver atmosphere without losing basic legibility.
At text sizes the distress pattern becomes a unifying grain across lines, while at larger sizes the chipped serifs and uneven edges become the main personality. The numerals and capitals maintain a firm, poster-ready presence, and the lowercase keeps the same worn rhythm for cohesive setting in longer passages.