Distressed Numah 3 is a regular weight, narrow, high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, fantasy branding, game logos, poster headers, album art, gothic, ominous, antique, weathered, folkloric, aged effect, dark drama, historical flavor, handmade feel, ragged, inked, spiky, textured, uneven.
A sharply cut blackletter-inspired display face with broken, irregular contours and a distressed, ink-worn texture throughout. Strokes alternate between thick wedges and hairline nicks, producing a tense, high-drama rhythm with frequent notches, hooks, and torn-looking terminals. Counters are tight and often asymmetrical, and the lowercase stays compact with pointed ascenders and abbreviated bowls, giving text a dense, jittery color. Numerals and capitals carry the same chiseled, eroded edge behavior, creating a consistent “printed-then-aged” impression across the set.
Best suited to short, attention-grabbing settings such as titles, logos, packaging accents, chapter heads, and event posters where a distressed gothic voice is desirable. It can work for pull quotes or signage-style lines, but the rough detailing is likely to overwhelm at small sizes or in long-form body text.
The overall tone is dark, archaic, and theatrical—evoking old proclamations, occult ephemera, and horror-leaning fantasy. Its roughened finish reads as handmade or degraded by time, adding menace and grit while preserving a recognizable medieval/Fraktur flavor.
The design appears intended to blend traditional blackletter structure with deliberate erosion and ink breakup, delivering an aged, unsettling look for thematic display typography rather than neutral reading.
The texture introduces lively micro-variation from glyph to glyph, so long passages can feel intentionally noisy; spacing and counters appear designed for display sizes where the ragged edges remain legible and expressive.