Distressed Nudib 2 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: horror posters, album covers, game titles, event flyers, book covers, grunge, occult, handmade, rugged, unsettling, add texture, create menace, evoke decay, handmade feel, dramatic titling, roughened, ragged, blotchy, torn-edge, inked.
A rugged display face with heavily roughened contours and uneven stroke edges that mimic torn paper or distressed ink transfer. Letterforms are largely simple and upright, but their outlines wobble and break, producing a lively, irregular rhythm across words. Strokes vary subtly in thickness and tapering, with occasional nicks and notches that create speckled interiors and softened corners. Counters stay mostly open and readable, while terminals look chipped rather than crisp, giving the alphabet a raw, weathered texture.
This font suits headlines and short passages where texture is part of the message—such as horror or thriller titling, dark-themed event promotion, game title screens, album/merch graphics, and punchy cover typography. It works best at medium-to-large sizes where the ragged edges and distressed detail can be appreciated without compromising legibility.
The overall tone feels gritty and ominous, with a handmade, corrupted-print character that suggests tension and drama. Its rough texture adds a sense of age, decay, or menace, making even straightforward text feel charged and atmospheric.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold, instantly atmospheric voice by combining straightforward, upright structures with aggressively weathered outlines. The goal is a readable display alphabet that still feels handcrafted and degraded, adding narrative texture to modern layouts.
In longer lines the distressed perimeter becomes the main visual feature, so spacing and word shape read as a textured band rather than smooth typographic color. The irregularities are consistent enough to feel intentional, but busy enough that very small sizes may lose clarity compared with cleaner display faces.