Distressed Irmof 7 is a regular weight, normal width, low contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, album covers, packaging, zines, rugged, handmade, vintage, gritty, playful, add texture, handmade feel, retro novelty, analog print, expressive display, rough-edged, inky, wobbly, irregular, chunky.
A rough, hand-rendered display face with chunky strokes, blunt terminals, and softly wobbling outlines that feel like ink spread or worn stamp edges. Counters are often squarish and slightly uneven, with occasional pinched corners and subtle interior deformation that adds texture without collapsing legibility. The alphabet mixes boxy structure with imperfect curves, creating a lively rhythm and a deliberately inconsistent, handmade finish across uppercase, lowercase, and numerals.
Best suited to short-to-medium setting where texture and personality are desirable: posters, headlines, packaging, album or event graphics, and zine-style layouts. It can also work for labels, pull quotes, and thematic branding where a rugged, handmade aesthetic is the goal.
The overall tone is gritty and tactile, suggesting DIY printmaking, rubber stamps, or distressed signage. Its irregularities give it an approachable, mischievous energy—more craft and character than polish—evoking retro novelty, zines, and offbeat titles.
The design appears intended to mimic imperfect hand lettering or distressed print output, combining sturdy, boxy forms with worn edges to deliver a bold, tactile voice. It prioritizes character and surface texture over geometric precision, aiming for expressive, theme-forward display typography.
The sample text shows the texture holding up at larger sizes, where the edge wear and inky lumps become part of the voice. Spacing and glyph silhouettes feel intentionally uneven, reinforcing the analog, imperfect impression and adding motion to lines of text.