Distressed Yade 1 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font visually similar to 'Designator' by TEKNIKE (names referenced only for comparison).
Keywords: posters, headlines, album art, game ui, title cards, gritty, urgent, industrial, edgy, retro, add texture, suggest motion, convey grit, poster impact, retro edge, roughened, angular, condensed, slanted, hand-inked.
A condensed, right-slanted sans with angular construction and squared-off curves. Strokes show lightly inconsistent thickness and pressure, with roughened edges and occasional interior wobble that reads like dry-brush or distressed printing. Terminals are mostly blunt and clipped, counters stay fairly rectangular, and the rhythm alternates between rigid straight segments and quick, kinked joins. Overall spacing feels slightly irregular, reinforcing a handmade, worn texture while keeping forms legible at display sizes.
Well suited to titles and short bursts of text where texture and attitude matter—posters, album/cover art, event promos, game or film title cards, and branding moments that want a rugged, kinetic voice. It can also work for UI labels or packaging accents when set with generous size and spacing to preserve the distressed details.
The font conveys a gritty, high-energy tone—part industrial stencil-meets-handlettering, part underground poster. Its slant and jagged texture add urgency and motion, while the narrow proportions keep it tight and forceful.
The design appears intended to merge a condensed italic display skeleton with an intentionally weathered, hand-inked finish, delivering a fast, aggressive feel while maintaining readable, consistent letter architecture.
Uppercase forms are strongly geometric with boxy bowls, while lowercase retains the same angular logic and simplified curves. Numerals share the same slanted, compact silhouette and distressed edge treatment, helping mixed alphanumeric settings feel cohesive.