Distressed Fuboh 6 is a regular weight, normal width, high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, book covers, packaging, headlines, branding, rustic, handmade, storybook, vintage, quirky, print patina, handcrafted feel, period flavor, organic texture, expressive display, roughened, textured, inked, uneven, bracketed serifs.
A high-contrast serif with visibly roughened outlines and an inked, slightly mottled texture that reads like worn letterpress or dry-brush printing. Strokes show irregular edge chatter and occasional interior speckling, while serifs are soft and often bracketed, giving terminals a carved, hand-rendered feel. Proportions lean traditional with a relatively short x-height, compact counters, and a lively, uneven rhythm; curves and diagonals vary subtly in width and finish, contributing to an organic, non-mechanical color in text.
Best suited to display sizes where the distressed texture and high-contrast details can be appreciated—posters, book and album covers, labels, and brand marks that want a tactile, printed character. It can work for short passages or pull quotes when a deliberately rough, vintage tone is desired, but the texture and short x-height may become busy at very small sizes.
The overall tone is rustic and handmade, blending old-world book typography with a playful, imperfect charm. It feels crafted and tactile rather than polished, suggesting print ephemera, folklore, and period-flavored display work.
The design appears intended to evoke worn print and hand-inked craft, combining classic serif structures with deliberate imperfections to create a distinctive, tactile personality for thematic and expressive typography.
Caps are strong and slightly idiosyncratic (notably in rounded letters and the Q tail), while lowercase forms remain readable but intentionally irregular in baseline and stroke endings. The numerals share the same distressed texture and high-contrast modulation, keeping the set visually cohesive in headings and short bursts of text.