Distressed Gegov 11 is a light, narrow, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, fantasy branding, game ui, album art, poster headlines, occult, medieval, handmade, sinister, ritual, evoke folklore, create menace, add texture, handmade feel, jagged, angular, scratchy, spiky, rune-like.
This font is a jagged, hand-drawn display face built from angular strokes with pointed terminals and irregular, slightly wavering contours. Letterforms show a carved or scratched construction—often with kinked joins, asymmetrical bowls, and occasional diamond-like counters—creating an intentionally uneven rhythm across words. Strokes stay relatively consistent in thickness while edges remain rough and notched, giving the outlines a distressed, inked-by-hand feel. Spacing and widths vary from glyph to glyph, reinforcing the improvised, glyphic texture in longer lines of text.
Best suited for short display settings where texture is an asset: horror and dark-fantasy titles, game interfaces for gothic or occult worlds, poster headlines, album/cover art, and themed packaging. It can work for brief emphatic lines or pull quotes, but the distressed, spiky detailing is strongest at larger sizes.
The overall tone is dark and ritualistic, with a rune-like, medieval flavor that reads as ominous and theatrical. Its sharp angles and distressed movement suggest mystery, danger, and folklore rather than friendliness or neutrality.
The design appears intended to mimic improvised, carved or scratch-written lettering with a deliberately rough finish, prioritizing atmosphere and world-building over typographic neutrality. Its consistent angular language and distressed edges aim to deliver a strongly themed voice for narrative or genre-driven design.
Capitals and lowercase share a cohesive jagged vocabulary, with many forms echoing broken calligraphic or carved-letter gestures rather than smooth typographic curves. Numerals follow the same angular, hand-inked logic, which helps the set feel unified in headings and short phrases.