Distressed Gohi 7 is a regular weight, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, packaging, zines, headlines, handmade, grunge, playful, casual, retro, handmade texture, analog wear, diy display, casual signage, rough, inky, worn, uneven, organic.
A hand-rendered, monoline-like sans with visibly irregular outlines and a rough, inked texture throughout the strokes. Letterforms are simple and largely geometric at their core, but the edges wobble and swell, creating a lively, imperfect rhythm. Counters tend to be open and rounded, terminals are blunt, and curves show slight flattening and bumps that mimic marker or brush wear. Spacing and character widths vary noticeably, reinforcing an organic, handcrafted color in text.
Best suited for short-to-medium display text where texture and personality are desirable—posters, flyers, album covers, event promos, packaging, and editorial callouts. It can work for brief passages when set large enough to keep the distressed details from filling in, and it pairs well with clean sans or neutral serifs for contrast.
The font feels informal and human, with a grungy, printed-by-hand character that reads as approachable rather than severe. Its mottled, distressed texture suggests DIY culture, zine aesthetics, and imperfect analog reproduction. Overall tone is playful and slightly rebellious, like a hand-stamped headline or a marker note scanned into a layout.
Likely designed to simulate hand-drawn lettering reproduced through imperfect printing or scanning, preserving wobble, ink spread, and wear. The goal appears to be an easygoing, legible display face with a built-in distressed patina for instant analog character.
The distressing appears integrated into the stroke bodies (not just rough edges), producing a consistent speckled/eroded look across uppercase, lowercase, and numerals. The shapes stay fairly upright and legible in paragraph-length samples, but the texture and irregularity become a dominant visual feature as size increases.