Distressed Hodaz 6 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, book covers, title cards, horror branding, grunge, handmade, raw, edgy, occult, texture emphasis, handmade feel, dramatic impact, dark themes, diy aesthetic, brushy, roughened, inked, scratchy, uneven.
A rough, brush-drawn display face with visibly distressed contours and irregular counters. Strokes show variable pressure and frayed terminals, producing broken edges, ink-drag textures, and occasional interior scarring that reads like dry-brush or worn printing. Proportions are lively and inconsistent by design, with a slightly narrow, handwritten rhythm and compact lowercase that feels smaller relative to the capitals. Letterforms are mostly simple and open, but the surface texture and uneven stroke endings give the set a restless, tactile look.
Best suited to headlines and short copy where the distressed brush texture can read clearly—posters, album artwork, game or film title cards, book covers, and themed branding. It can also work for pull quotes or packaging accents when paired with a calmer text face for longer reading.
The overall tone is gritty and handmade, evoking underground flyers, horror and fantasy ephemera, or DIY zines. Its rough texture adds tension and immediacy, suggesting urgency, mystery, and a slightly menacing attitude without becoming illegible at headline sizes.
The design appears intended to deliver a hand-inked, weathered aesthetic that feels expressive and imperfect, prioritizing character and texture over strict geometric consistency. Its irregular stroke behavior and distressed interiors suggest it was built to instantly communicate atmosphere in display settings.
The texture is a major part of the identity: many characters show deliberate wobble, small gaps, and chiseled-looking edges that create strong variation from glyph to glyph. Numerals and capitals carry the most dramatic abrasion, helping the font hold attention in short bursts of text.