Distressed Ralag 10 is a very bold, normal width, high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, packaging, headlines, event flyers, grunge, playful, handmade, raw, comic, express texture, add grit, handmade feel, increase impact, brushy, blobby, inked, rough, jagged.
A chunky, ink-heavy display face with irregular, brush-like contours and visibly distressed counters. Strokes are compact and often swollen, with pinched joints and uneven terminals that create a wet-ink, stamped-at-hand feel. Letterforms keep a mostly upright stance but vary in silhouette and internal shapes, producing a lively rhythm and a deliberately imperfect texture across lines of text.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as posters, album/cover art, packaging callouts, headlines, and event flyers where texture is part of the message. It can also work for bold title treatments in games or themed promotions, but its heavy distress and irregularity make it less appropriate for small-size body text.
The overall tone is loud, scrappy, and mischievous, balancing a kid-like spontaneity with a gritty, scuffed edge. It suggests DIY printing, hand-painted signage, or rough marker lettering—expressive rather than refined.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum presence with a rough, tactile surface—prioritizing character and texture over uniformity. Its irregular outlines and distressed interiors aim to emulate hand-inked marks and imperfect reproduction for expressive display typography.
The distressed effect appears both on the outer edges and inside counters, giving each glyph a mottled, worn look. Rounded forms (like O, C, and a) feel especially blobby, while verticals and diagonals show wavering width and occasional nicks, enhancing the handmade energy.