Distressed Lomu 5 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, album art, book covers, grunge, vintage, typewritten, rough, hand-inked, aged print, tactile texture, retro tone, rugged emphasis, blotchy, textured, uneven, worn, stamped.
A heavy serif face with a typewriter-like skeleton, rendered with pronounced irregularities along the outer contours. Strokes are chunky and slightly uneven, with rough, chipped edges and occasional ink-like bulges that create a mottled silhouette. Letterforms keep fairly traditional proportions and clear counters, but the baseline and sidebearings feel slightly unsettled, producing a lively, imperfect rhythm. Capitals are sturdy and blocky, while the lowercase maintains readable, compact shapes with assertive serifs and rounded joins softened by the distressed texture.
Works best at display sizes where the rough edges and ink texture can be appreciated—posters, headlines, cover typography, and packaging or label designs. It can also suit short bursts of text (pull quotes, section heads) when you want a worn, typewritten impression without prioritizing crisp body-copy readability.
The overall tone suggests worn print, aged stationery, or ink pressed through imperfect machinery. It feels gritty and tactile—more handmade and atmospheric than precise—evoking archival documents, old posters, and weathered labels.
The design appears intended to pair a familiar serif/typewriter structure with deliberate surface damage, simulating degraded printing and creating instant atmosphere. The goal is legibility with character: recognizable letterforms that carry a strong tactile, distressed imprint.
The distress is consistent across the set, making it look like a single printing condition rather than random damage per glyph. Numerals share the same roughened terminals and dark color, supporting cohesive display use where texture is part of the message.