Distressed Obfa 1 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, headlines, album art, book covers, grunge, vintage, handmade, rustic, eerie, aged print, analog texture, dramatic mood, handcrafted feel, rough, weathered, worn, inked, textured.
A rough, inked serif with jagged, broken contours and a deliberately uneven stroke edge. Letterforms keep a broadly traditional serif skeleton but with irregular terminals, pitted counters, and subtle wobble in stems that mimics distressed printing or worn type. Curves are slightly lumpy rather than smooth, and joins often look blotted or chipped, producing a lively, noisy texture across words. Capitals are sturdy and upright, while lowercase is compact with a relatively low x-height and narrow apertures that can close up at smaller sizes due to the distressing.
Best suited to display settings where texture is an asset: posters, cover treatments, product labels, menus, and short headlines that benefit from a rugged, vintage feel. It can work for brief passages or pull quotes when set generously, but the heavy edge noise and compact lowercase favor larger sizes and simpler layouts.
The overall tone is gritty and timeworn, like lettering pulled from aged ephemera or a battered press sheet. Its roughness adds tension and drama, lending an antique, slightly ominous flavor that feels handmade rather than mechanical.
The design appears intended to deliver a classic serif impression while foregrounding wear and imperfect reproduction, evoking aged print and tactile ink on paper. Its goal is to add atmosphere and authenticity through consistent distress rather than pristine typographic polish.
The distress pattern is consistent across the set, creating strong visual grain in paragraphs and making the font read darker than a clean serif at the same size. Spacing appears reasonably even, but the irregular outlines create a shimmering rhythm that becomes a key part of the look, especially in mixed-case text.