Distressed Nago 11 is a regular weight, normal width, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, album art, book covers, vintage, rugged, hand-inked, industrial, editorial, aged print, tactile texture, heritage tone, rugged display, slab serif, worn edges, blunted terminals, soft corners, inked.
A slab-serif roman with sturdy, slightly condensed-to-variable letterfit and a visibly worn, uneven perimeter that mimics aged printing or ink spread. Strokes are generally uniform in thickness, with broad, squared serifs and blunt terminals that keep forms compact and robust. Curves are somewhat flattened and corners are softened by roughness, producing a subtly irregular rhythm across lines. Uppercase feels authoritative and poster-ready, while the lowercase maintains a readable, workmanlike texture with consistent proportions.
Well-suited for display settings such as posters, headlines, and packaging where a tactile, aged-print look is desired. It can also support short editorial callouts, book-cover titling, or album art where a rugged, analog texture adds mood. For longer text, it will read best at comfortable sizes where the distressed edges don’t overpower the letterforms.
The font conveys a utilitarian, timeworn character—part typewriter-adjacent, part old letterpress—suggesting authenticity, grit, and tactile print. Its distressed edge treatment adds a lived-in tone that reads as vintage and handmade rather than polished or corporate.
Likely designed to evoke printed ephemera and worn metal/wood type, pairing a sturdy slab-serif skeleton with a controlled distressed treatment to deliver instant character. The goal appears to be dependable readability with added grit for thematic branding and display typography.
The distressing is distributed fairly evenly across glyphs, creating a consistent texture without heavy deformation of counters or silhouettes. Numerals and capitals are especially strong at larger sizes, where the worn outline becomes a deliberate stylistic feature.