Distressed Fubuf 13 is a regular weight, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
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A wide, slab-serif roman with sturdy proportions, blunt terminals, and a fairly even, medium-contrast color. The letterforms show deliberate distressing: small voids, nicks, and speckled interior breaks that mimic worn ink or damaged printing plates. Serifs are squared and bracketed lightly in places, with a generally stable baseline and upright stance. In text, the texture produces an uneven edge and mottled counters while maintaining clear, traditional skeletons.
Best suited to display settings where the worn texture can read as a stylistic feature—posters, album covers, labels, packaging, and heritage-themed branding. It can work for short passages or pull quotes at generous sizes, especially when you want a bold, tactile print feel rather than a clean, modern tone.
The overall tone feels archival and workmanlike, like old letterpress ephemera, stenciled packaging, or stamped signage that has seen use. The distressed texture adds grit and authenticity, giving otherwise classic forms a lived-in, slightly gritty character.
The design appears intended to blend a classic slab-serif foundation with an intentionally aged printing effect, delivering a reliable, bold silhouette while adding surface character for thematic impact.
Distressing is applied consistently across caps, lowercase, and numerals, creating a recognizable “printed-through” patina rather than random deformation. The wide set and strong slabs help retain legibility even when the texture becomes prominent, though at small sizes the speckling may visually fill in or shimmer depending on reproduction.