Distressed Mupi 1 is a regular weight, narrow, low contrast, reverse italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, game ui, book covers, packaging, grunge, diy, typewriter, zine, industrial, add texture, evoke print, signal grit, feel handmade, create edge, rough, textured, hand-inked, monoline, angular.
A condensed, monoline sans with squared-off geometry and subtly leaning (reverse-italic) stance. Strokes are mostly straight with occasional kinked joins and blunt terminals, while curves are rendered as faceted, boxy arcs. Edges appear worn and uneven, with slight wobble and sporadic nicks that create a printed-by-hand or rough-stamped texture. Counters tend to be tight and rectangular, and overall spacing and widths vary from glyph to glyph, reinforcing an improvised, distressed construction.
Well suited to display uses where texture and attitude are desirable, such as posters, album/EP artwork, event flyers, game interfaces with a gritty theme, book covers, and packaging that aims for a hand-stamped or industrial label feel. It also works for short UI labels or badges when set with generous size and spacing.
The font conveys a gritty, handmade attitude—part rough typewriter, part cut-and-stamp lettering. Its irregular inked texture and angular forms suggest urgency and rawness, giving text a punk-zine, workshop, or underground flyer energy rather than a polished corporate tone.
The design appears intended to mimic imperfect, inked letterforms—like rough screenprint, stamp, or worn typewriter output—while keeping a simple, monoline skeleton for quick legibility. The faceted curves, squared counters, and deliberately uneven edges emphasize character and atmosphere over typographic refinement.
In the sample text, the distressed contouring remains consistent across sizes, but the tight counters and narrow interior spaces can visually fill in at smaller settings. The reverse-lean and uneven stroke edges add motion and character, making the face feel more expressive in headlines than in dense paragraphs.