Distressed Ilba 15 is a bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, book covers, packaging, labels, vintage, gritty, noir, rustic, handmade, aged print, ink wear, handmade tone, dramatic impact, blotchy, roughened, inked, weathered, heavyweight.
This typeface uses chunky, slab-like letterforms with softened corners and heavily roughened contours. Strokes are thick with subtly uneven width, and edges show inky bulges, nicks, and worn-looking bite marks that create a mottled silhouette. Counters are irregular and sometimes partially closed, contributing to a dense, stamped texture. Serifs and terminals feel blunt and compressed, while overall spacing and glyph widths vary enough to suggest imperfect impression and tactile printing.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as posters, headlines, title treatments, and cover typography where texture is a feature. It also works well for packaging and label designs that benefit from a handcrafted, aged, or industrial print impression. For longer passages, the heavy texture and irregular counters may reduce clarity, so larger sizes and generous leading are recommended.
The overall tone is gritty and analog, evoking aged printing, worn signage, and shadowy, pulp-era atmospheres. Its blotched texture reads as raw and imperfect in a deliberate way, giving text a rough, dramatic presence rather than a polished one.
The design appears intended to simulate worn, ink-heavy printing with a rugged, imperfect finish, prioritizing atmosphere and tactility over crisp neutrality. It aims to deliver an immediate vintage-industrial signal while keeping familiar slab-serif structure for strong headline legibility.
In the sample text, the distressed texture remains consistent across sizes, with darker joins and occasional speckled interiors that can visually thicken small details. The numerals share the same rugged, stamped character, helping mixed alphanumeric settings feel cohesive.