Distressed Radob 4 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, horror, punk flyers, game titles, grunge, handmade, rough, punchy, raw, distress effect, handmade feel, high impact, tactile print, brushy, ragged, blotchy, inked, jagged.
A heavy, ink-forward display face with irregular, torn-looking edges and uneven stroke terminals that feel like rough brush or sponge printing. Forms are mostly simple and upright, but the contours wobble and the stroke thickness subtly surges, creating a lively, distressed texture across the alphabet. Counters are often lumpy and partially closed in places, and curves are slightly angularized, giving round letters a carved, worn appearance. Spacing and sidebearings vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, reinforcing an organic, hand-rendered rhythm.
Best suited for headlines, posters, packaging accents, and short, high-impact phrases where texture is part of the message. It can work well for music and event promotions, game title screens, and themed graphics (horror, grunge, underground). For longer text, generous size and leading help preserve clarity as the distressed edges add visual noise.
The overall tone is gritty and tactile, evoking DIY posters, worn rubber-stamp impressions, or distressed screen prints. It reads as energetic and a little unruly—more rebellious and underground than polished or refined.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold, tactile imprint with a deliberately weathered finish—capturing the immediacy of hand-made lettering and rough print processes while staying legible at display sizes.
The distressing is consistent enough to feel intentional rather than accidental, with repeated ragged nicks and ink-bleed-like edges that create a coherent texture line to line. Numerals share the same battered silhouette, and the punctuation in the sample text appears similarly chunky and inked.