Distressed Pivo 11 is a bold, narrow, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, album covers, merchandise, gritty, handmade, vintage, rugged, rowdy, printwear, tactility, attitude, impact, nostalgia, inked, blotchy, roughened, stamped, uneven.
A heavy, condensed display face with roughened contours and uneven stroke edges that mimic worn ink or crude letterpress printing. Stems are chunky and largely vertical, with simplified shapes and small, irregular counters that sometimes pinch or fill in. Terminals tend to be blunt and slightly bulbous, and the overall texture shows subtle wobble and chipping that breaks clean geometry. Spacing and widths vary noticeably across glyphs, reinforcing an improvised, hand-printed rhythm in both caps and lowercase.
Best suited to short, impactful settings where texture is part of the message—posters, headlines, event flyers, album/playlist artwork, packaging, and apparel graphics. It can also work for pull quotes or section headers when you want a raw, tactile print character, but the distressed details are most effective at medium-to-large sizes.
The font projects a gritty, homemade energy with a vintage, workwear feel—more back-alley poster and rubber-stamp than polished typography. Its distressed texture adds attitude and immediacy, suggesting urgency, noise, and physical print processes.
The design appears intended to emulate rough printing and worn signage, prioritizing texture and personality over pristine uniformity. Its condensed proportions and heavy strokes aim for maximum presence while the distressed edge treatment delivers a deliberately aged, tactile look.
Uppercase forms read strong and blocky, while the lowercase keeps a compact, utilitarian presence that remains visibly textured at text sizes. Numerals follow the same distressed logic, with irregular bowls and edges that create a consistent, intentionally imperfect color across lines.