Distressed Puneb 1 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, horror, streetwear, headlines, grunge, handmade, rough, rebellious, raw, distressed impact, handmade texture, gritty tone, analog feel, dramatic display, brushy, ragged, inked, uneven, textured.
A heavy, brush-like display face with visibly ragged contours and torn-looking terminals. Strokes have an inked, dry-brush character with frequent edge chipping, occasional splatter-like nicks, and slight wobble in verticals and curves. Forms are compact and sturdy, with simplified counters and a hand-cut rhythm that introduces small, intentional inconsistencies across the set. Numerals and capitals read as chunky silhouettes, while lowercase maintains a similar weight with irregular joins and blunt, broken endings.
Works best for short, high-impact text such as posters, event flyers, album or podcast covers, game titles, and apparel graphics. It’s well suited to horror, thriller, punk/metal, skate or streetwear branding, and any layout that benefits from a rough, tactile stamp/brush impression. For readability, it performs most reliably at display sizes and with generous tracking and line spacing.
The overall tone feels gritty and visceral, like stamped lettering, distressed signage, or expressive brush marks scanned from paper. It conveys a DIY, underground energy that can read as edgy, ominous, or punk depending on color and layout. The texture adds urgency and attitude, giving even neutral words a more dramatic, roughened voice.
The design appears intended to mimic distressed brush or ink lettering—capturing the imperfections of physical media and rough printing rather than clean digital curves. Its goal is to deliver strong silhouette readability while foregrounding texture and wear for a bold, gritty atmosphere.
The distressing is consistent enough to feel cohesive while still varying from glyph to glyph, which helps avoid a mechanically repeated texture. Round letters (O, C, G) lean toward lopsided, hand-drawn circles, and many strokes end in slightly frayed points that suggest fast, pressure-driven drawing. The font’s density and texture can visually “fill in” at small sizes or on low-resolution outputs.