Distressed Fulob 5 is a bold, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, book covers, logos, packaging, gothic, spooky, theatrical, vintage, folk, evoke antiquity, add menace, create texture, headline impact, blackletter-tinged, spurred, jagged, inked, tapered.
A heavy display face with a blackletter-tinged skeleton and pronounced spurs. Strokes show sharp tapers, wedge-like terminals, and occasional needle points, creating a carved, thorny silhouette. Edges are intentionally uneven with subtle nicks and wobble, giving the letters an ink-worn, distressed texture while maintaining clear counters. The rhythm mixes broad vertical stems with tighter joins and angular diagonals, producing a compact, emphatic texture in text.
Best suited to display sizes where the spurs and distressed edges can be appreciated—posters, headlines, title cards, packaging, and logo wordmarks. It can work for short bursts of text (taglines or pull quotes), but dense paragraphs may feel busy due to the active outlines and high ornamentation.
The overall tone feels gothic and slightly menacing, with a theatrical, old-world flavor. Its jagged terminals and roughened outlines suggest haunted signage, pulp horror titles, or medieval-fantasy ephemera—dramatic rather than refined.
The design appears intended to blend blackletter-inspired structure with a deliberately rough, worn finish, delivering strong impact and a narrative, atmospheric character. It prioritizes mood and silhouette over neutrality, aiming for bold, thematic communication.
Capital forms are especially decorative, with strong spur accents and occasional asymmetry that reads as hand-inked or rough-printed. Numerals follow the same spurred, tapered construction and stay visually consistent with the letterforms, helping mixed alphanumeric settings keep the same gritty voice.