Outline Koza 4 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, album art, horror titles, packaging, grunge, gothic, spooky, vintage, punk, add texture, evoke horror, vintage effect, poster impact, distressed display, distressed, ragged, jagged, roughened, inked.
A heavy display face with strongly distressed contours and chiseled, uneven edges that create a torn-ink silhouette. The underlying structure reads as a serifed, oldstyle-inspired skeleton, but terminals and serifs are aggressively roughened, producing irregular bite marks and notches around bowls, stems, and cross strokes. Counters are generally compact and the overall color is dense, with small interior cut-ins and edge erosion creating texture while preserving legibility at larger sizes.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as posters, title cards, editorial openers, or branding moments where texture is desired. It can work for themed packaging, event graphics, album covers, and game/film titles; for longer passages, it reads most comfortably at larger sizes where the distressed detailing doesn’t clog.
The texture and rugged outlining push a dark, theatrical tone—somewhere between haunted-letterpress, horror poster, and underground gig flyer. It feels intentionally imperfect and noisy, with a hand-weathered finish that suggests age, grit, and menace rather than polish or neutrality.
Designed to deliver a bold display voice with a weathered, hand-gnawed finish—evoking vintage printing and horror-inspired signage while keeping the letterforms recognizably serifed and sturdy.
Round letters like O/Q and numerals show the distress most clearly along the outer curve, while verticals retain a stout, blocky presence that keeps words readable. The rhythm is lively due to the inconsistent edge wear, so lines of text look animated and slightly chaotic, especially in mixed case.