Distressed Pulir 7 is a bold, narrow, high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, event flyers, headline, packaging, grunge, handmade, edgy, playful, raw, add texture, signal diy, create impact, evoke wear, brushy, rough, inked, choppy, irregular.
A rough, brush-ink display face with chunky strokes and visibly distressed edges. Letterforms are mostly upright with compact proportions and a slightly uneven baseline rhythm, creating a handmade, printed-from-worn-type feel. Strokes show intermittent thinning and thickening, with ragged terminals, small interior nicks, and occasional splatter-like voids that add texture without fully breaking the glyph shapes. Counters are generally small and dark, and spacing feels tight and energetic, producing a dense, poster-ready color.
Best used for short-to-medium headlines where the texture can be appreciated: posters, flyers, album/mixtape art, game titles, and packaging or labels seeking a rough, crafted voice. It can also work for pull quotes or social graphics, but is less suited to long body copy where the distressed edges may fatigue readability.
The overall tone is gritty and DIY, blending a punk-zine roughness with a slightly whimsical, cartoonish friendliness. It reads as loud and informal—more expressive than refined—suited to messaging that wants to feel immediate, rebellious, or hand-made.
This design appears intended to deliver a distressed, hand-rendered display look that feels printed, worn, and energetic. The goal seems to be immediate impact and personality through rough texture and uneven stroke behavior while preserving recognizable, readable letter shapes.
The distressed texture is fairly consistent across caps, lowercase, and numerals, so the set holds together as a cohesive display system. Rounded letters (like O/C/G) emphasize the brushy contour, while straighter forms (like E/F/T) keep a blocky, cut-out silhouette that stays legible at larger sizes.