Distressed Gory 10 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: horror posters, album covers, game titles, event flyers, comics, grunge, edgy, handmade, raw, dark, add grit, create tension, handmade feel, horror tone, punk edge, brushy, scratchy, spiky, jagged, uneven.
A rough, hand-drawn display face with angular forms and visibly distressed contours. Strokes look like dry-brush or scratched ink, producing ragged edges, occasional spikes, and intermittent thinning. Curves are simplified into faceted, irregular bowls, while joins and terminals vary from glyph to glyph, creating a lively, inconsistent rhythm. Counters are often small and uneven, and the baseline and sidebearings feel loosely controlled, emphasizing a handmade texture over typographic polish.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings where texture is an asset: posters, titles, packaging accents, band or album artwork, and game/film promotional graphics. It performs well at larger sizes where the distressed edges and angular shapes can be appreciated, and where a rough, dramatic tone is desired over extended readability.
The font conveys a gritty, aggressive energy with a DIY, underground feel. Its distressed marks and sharp, fractured silhouettes suggest tension and urgency, reading as ominous, rebellious, and intentionally unrefined.
Likely designed to mimic distressed hand lettering—part brush, part scratch—creating a bold, gritty display voice. The goal appears to be expressive impact and atmosphere rather than uniformity, using irregular stroke behavior and jagged terminals to project a raw, worn aesthetic.
In text, the strong texture accumulates quickly, making words appear darker and more chaotic as size decreases. Numerals and capitals carry particularly jagged silhouettes, and several characters exhibit pronounced idiosyncrasies that add personality but can reduce quick scanning in longer passages.