Distressed Nunos 5 is a light, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, horror titles, zines, packaging, grunge, typewriter, aged, raw, noisy, aged print, gritty tone, analog texture, typewriter echo, atmospheric display, roughened, eroded, blotchy, ragged, inked.
A rough, typewriter-like serif face with irregular, eroded contours and uneven inking throughout. Strokes are generally narrow with modest contrast, but their edges wobble and break, creating a worn print texture that varies from glyph to glyph. The serifs are small and sometimes partially dissolved, and counters frequently show speckling or chipping that reduces crispness. Spacing and widths feel loosely typewriter-inspired while maintaining a lively, imperfect rhythm in text.
Works best for display uses where the distressed texture is meant to be seen: posters, album or book covers, game titles, and editorial headlines with a gritty voice. It also suits zines, flyers, and packaging that aims for a vintage, photocopied, or worn industrial feel; for extended body text, larger sizes and generous leading help preserve clarity.
The overall tone is gritty and weathered, evoking aged documents, photocopies, and stamped or battered machinery typography. It reads as human-and-hardware at once—mechanical in structure but chaotic in surface—giving text an anxious, underground, or archival atmosphere.
This design appears intended to deliver a classic typewriter reading pattern while adding heavy surface degradation to simulate age, rough printing, or repeated copying. The goal is character and atmosphere over cleanliness, giving otherwise familiar letterforms a convincingly battered, analog texture.
At larger sizes the texture becomes a defining feature, with visible nicks and ink buildup adding character; at smaller sizes the distressed edges can soften fine details and make letterforms feel more mottled. The lowercase shows a clear typewriter DNA (single-story forms and simple constructions), while capitals keep a slightly more formal silhouette that’s quickly destabilized by the rough print effects.