Distressed Nibim 2 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, book covers, headlines, title cards, packaging, gritty, vintage, noir, rough, pulp, aged print, analog texture, dramatic impact, period feel, typewriter, inked, blotchy, weathered, ragged.
A heavy, typewriter-like serif with irregular, eroded contours and frequent ink-bleed voids that create a stamped or worn print effect. Strokes are sturdy and mostly upright, with slabby serifs and uneven terminals that break up the silhouettes. The texture is consistent across caps, lowercase, and numerals, producing a mottled rhythm where counters and joins appear partially filled or chipped. Spacing and widths feel naturally inconsistent in a way that reads as mechanical output degraded by age or rough reproduction.
Best suited to display applications where texture is a feature: posters, editorial or book-cover titling, album art, title cards, and packaging that wants an aged print voice. It can work for short bursts of body text in thematic layouts, but the distressed counters and blotting are more effective in headlines and pull quotes than in long reading settings.
The overall tone is gritty and analog, evoking old documents, pulp covers, and hardboiled signage. Its roughened edges and blotched interiors give a tactile, imperfect impression that feels archival and slightly ominous. The font communicates urgency and authenticity rather than polish.
The design appears intended to mimic worn typewriter or letterpress output, combining a strong serif structure with deliberate degradation to suggest age, repetition, and imperfect inking. The goal is to add instant atmosphere and materiality to otherwise straightforward letterforms.
Uppercase forms are sturdy and emphatic, while lowercase retains the same distressed treatment, keeping mixed-case text cohesive. Numerals match the rugged texture and maintain strong presence at text sizes, though the deliberate erosion can reduce clarity in dense passages.