Distressed Obje 13 is a light, narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, book covers, title cards, album art, gritty, handmade, rustic, raw, vintage-print, add texture, humanize type, evoke print wear, create atmosphere, rough edge, dry brush, ink bleed, wobbly, organic.
A rough, hand-rendered roman with slim strokes and visibly irregular, ragged contours. Stems and curves show subtle waviness, with occasional thickened spots and frayed terminals that suggest dry-brush or worn ink transfer rather than crisp outlines. Counters are open and somewhat uneven, and spacing feels slightly inconsistent in a natural way, giving lines of text a lively, imperfect rhythm. The lowercase mixes simple, handwritten-like forms with straightforward construction, and the figures follow the same distressed, slightly bouncy drawing.
Works well for display applications where tactile texture is desirable—posters, editorial headlines, book covers, packaging, and themed branding. It can also support short passages or pull quotes when a deliberately imperfect, printed-by-hand feel is needed, especially at medium-to-large sizes.
The overall tone is gritty and handmade, evoking worn print, sketchbook lettering, or distressed signage. It reads as casual and human, with a raw texture that adds atmosphere and a hint of vintage roughness without becoming overly chaotic.
Likely designed to mimic hand-inked lettering with natural variation and worn edges, delivering an authentic, analog texture while retaining familiar roman proportions for straightforward readability.
The texture is consistent across caps, lowercase, and numerals, with edge breakup doing most of the stylistic work. At larger sizes the distressing becomes a prominent graphic feature; at smaller sizes it will read more like soft noise around the letterforms.