Distressed Pumam 7 is a bold, narrow, medium contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, book covers, album art, horror titles, grunge, pulp, vintage, eerie, rowdy, add grit, evoke age, create drama, signal genre, rough-cut, ragged, inked, textured, spiky.
A rough, calligraphic serif with jagged, distressed contours and visibly uneven terminals. Strokes show a lively diagonal slant and a hand-inked rhythm, with chipped edges that create a gritty silhouette at both display and text sizes. The letterforms lean on classic serif structures, but the serifs and joins are irregular and sometimes thorny, producing a strongly textured overall color. Curves and bowls are slightly pinched and wobbly, and counters stay fairly open despite the heavy, weathered outline.
Best suited to display work where texture is an asset: posters, striking headlines, book and game covers, packaging accents, and music or event graphics. It can also work for short pulls of text (taglines, blurbs) when a gritty, vintage-printed feel is desired, but the heavy distress can dominate in long-form reading.
The texture and sharp, worn details evoke aged printing, pulpy posters, and gritty ephemera. It reads as dramatic and slightly menacing, with a handmade urgency that can feel rebellious or horror-adjacent depending on context. The overall tone is nostalgic but rough, like ink dragged across coarse paper.
Likely designed to deliver classic serif readability while injecting a deliberate worn, ink-scuffed character for thematic typography. The goal appears to be a strong, instantly recognizable texture that suggests age, atmosphere, and printed grit without abandoning familiar letterform construction.
The distressed treatment is consistent across uppercase, lowercase, and numerals, helping long lines retain a coherent, noisy texture. Numerals carry the same chipped, ink-bitten edges, making them well suited to matching headline typography rather than quiet tabular settings.