Distressed Seho 4 is a bold, narrow, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
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A heavy display face built from compact, mostly vertical forms with sharp terminals and uneven, torn-looking contours. Strokes appear chunked and high-contrast, with abrupt transitions and occasional internal voids that read like ink dropouts or chipped stencil cuts. The silhouettes stay broadly consistent across the set, while edge wear varies per glyph, creating a distressed rhythm. Counters are generally tight and irregular, and several letters show deliberate nicks, drips, and rough cuts that break the otherwise solid black mass.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as poster headlines, title cards, packaging, and entertainment branding where a distressed, eerie texture is desirable. It can work for pull quotes or short subheads at moderate sizes, but the ragged detailing may soften or fill in when set too small.
The overall tone is gritty and ominous, evoking worn print, horror ephemera, and distressed signage. Its rough edges and imperfect fill add tension and urgency, giving text a handmade, damaged, or haunted character.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold headline voice with built-in damage and ink breakup, so designers can get a grunge/horror atmosphere without adding separate texture effects. Its consistent underlying letterforms keep words recognizable while the irregular edges supply character and grit.
The texture is most pronounced at terminals and along vertical stems, where the damage creates small spikes and dangling fragments. In longer lines the distressed detailing becomes a repeating pattern, so spacing and size will influence whether the effect reads as subtle wear or overt splatter.