Distressed Fubaz 3 is a regular weight, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album covers, horror titles, zines, packaging, grunge, handmade, raw, retro, noisy, add texture, evoke wear, create grit, analog feel, edgy branding, roughened, ink-bleed, weathered, worn, uneven.
A rough, all-caps-and-lowercase display face with irregular, eroded contours and pitted interiors that mimic worn ink or distressed printing. Strokes are generally narrow with noticeably uneven thickness, producing a high-contrast feel where joins and terminals alternately thicken and thin. Letterforms stay mostly upright and straightforward in construction, but their outlines wobble and break subtly, creating a jittery rhythm and a slightly imperfect baseline/edge presence. Counters and apertures remain readable, though many are scarred by speckling and edge loss that varies from glyph to glyph.
Best suited to display settings where texture is an asset: posters, album artwork, event flyers, and gritty branding moments. It can also work for packaging, labels, and merch graphics that want a worn, analog-print vibe. For longer passages, it performs better at larger sizes with generous spacing to keep the distressed edges from visually filling in.
The overall tone is gritty and tactile, like aged signage, photocopied type, or stamped lettering that has seen repeated use. It reads as informal and human, with a tense, edgy energy that can feel underground, punk-adjacent, or horror-tinged depending on context and color.
The design appears intended to deliver a readable, familiar skeleton while layering on heavy surface wear—evoking battered print, ink spread, and abrasion without fully sacrificing legibility. It’s geared toward creating instant atmosphere and a tactile, lo-fi texture in headlines and short phrases.
In text samples the distress pattern is consistent enough to feel like a deliberate texture layer rather than random noise, but it still introduces visual chatter at small sizes. The numerals and capitals share the same eroded texture, helping maintain a cohesive look across headings and short bursts of copy.