Distressed Obmi 6 is a light, wide, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, game ui, film posters, album art, book covers, eerie, handmade, grunge, occult, weathered, evoke dread, add texture, handmade feel, genre branding, aged print, rough, jagged, scratchy, uneven, textured.
A rough, handwritten-style serifless design with dry-brush edges, torn-looking terminals, and visibly irregular stroke contours. Letterforms lean subtly, with narrow joins, occasional ink-bloat, and tapering strokes that create a nervous, scratchy rhythm across words. Counters are often small and somewhat uneven, and widths vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, reinforcing an improvised, hand-drawn construction. The overall texture reads like worn ink on paper, with purposeful imperfections and inconsistent baselines that add character more than polish.
Best suited to display uses where texture and mood are primary—titles, posters, cover art, and themed packaging. It can work for short passages or pull quotes when set with generous tracking and leading, but the rough stroke detail and uneven rhythm make it less ideal for small-size body copy.
The font conveys a dark, ritualistic tone—like notes scrawled in a spellbook or a distressed title card. Its ragged strokes and uneven rhythm create tension and grit, suggesting mystery, menace, and underground energy rather than friendliness or neutrality.
The design appears intended to simulate distressed handwriting with a dry-brush or scraped-ink finish, prioritizing atmosphere and tactile grit. Its irregular outlines and varied widths are used to create an expressive, haunted tone suitable for genre and thematic typography.
In continuous text the distressed edge detail remains prominent, producing a grainy color on the line. Simpler shapes (like I, T, and 1) stay legible, while more complex letters pick up extra visual noise from the rough terminals and variable stroke endings.