Distressed Yagu 4 is a regular weight, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, album art, game titles, gritty, industrial, rugged, noir, vintage, add texture, evoke wear, create impact, industrial mood, vintage tone, stencil-like, weathered, broken, inked, rough.
A sharply cut, serifed display face with a stencil-like construction and intentional breakpoints throughout the strokes. The letterforms are built from bold, high-contrast verticals and tapered terminals, with irregular voids that read like chipped paint or worn ink. Edges are rough and uneven, and counters are often partially interrupted, creating a fragmented texture while keeping the underlying classical proportions legible. Overall spacing feels slightly uneven by design, reinforcing the distressed rhythm across lines of text.
Best suited for short, prominent text where texture is a feature: posters, headlines, title cards, packaging accents, album/cover art, and game or film titling. It can also work for logos or badges that benefit from a weathered, industrial stamp effect, but the distressed breaks make it less ideal for long-form reading at smaller sizes.
The font conveys a gritty, utilitarian tone—part industrial signage, part aged print. Its broken strokes and rough edges suggest wear, friction, and time, lending a moody, noir-leaning character that feels tough and tactile rather than polished.
The design appears intended to merge traditional serif letterforms with a deliberately degraded, stencil-printed surface. The goal is to deliver strong, recognizable silhouettes while adding built-in texture for instant atmosphere and a worn, hard-used finish.
Uppercase forms lean toward stately, inscriptional shapes, but the repeated interruptions and scuffed contours dominate the read. Numerals and lowercase maintain the same distressed logic, producing a consistent ‘printed-through-a-damaged-stencil’ impression that becomes more pronounced at larger sizes.