Distressed Lohu 4 is a bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album covers, packaging, headlines, book covers, gritty, vintage, raw, utilitarian, rebellious, add texture, evoke wear, create impact, analog feel, rough, inked, speckled, weathered, chunky.
A heavy, slab‑serif, typewriter-like design with compact, sturdy letterforms and noticeably irregular contours. Strokes are thick with mildly uneven weight distribution, and the edges look chewed, ink-bled, or eroded, creating a textured silhouette across all glyphs. Serifs are blunt and squared, counters are somewhat tight, and the overall rhythm is slightly uneven due to per-glyph distress and subtle width differences. Numerals and capitals share the same rugged treatment, keeping a consistent, stamped impression.
Best suited for display applications such as posters, album art, editorial headlines, and packaging where texture and attitude are desirable. It can work for short blocks of copy in captions or pull quotes, but the heavy inked texture and tight counters are most effective when given ample size and spacing.
The font conveys a gritty, analog tone—evoking worn impressions, DIY print, and rough mechanical reproduction. Its texture adds urgency and attitude, giving text a rebellious, streetwise feel while still reading as structured and typographic rather than brushy or script-like.
The design appears intended to mimic a rugged, imperfect printing process while keeping the familiar structure of slab‑serif/typewriter forms. It prioritizes texture, impact, and an aged mechanical feel over pristine uniformity.
At text sizes the distress consolidates into a grainy darkness, while at larger sizes the torn edges and irregular terminals become the primary visual feature. The roughness is fairly uniform across the set, so long passages will maintain a consistent ‘printed-worn’ character rather than appearing randomly damaged.