Distressed Pukop 9 is a very bold, narrow, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
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A heavy, compact display face with chunky strokes and aggressively distressed contours. Letterforms are built from mostly simple, upright skeletons, then broken up by ragged edges, gouged counters, and uneven terminals that create a torn-ink silhouette. Curves appear slightly lumpy and hand-formed, while corners are chipped and irregular, giving each glyph a cutout-like mass. Spacing and widths vary subtly, producing a lively, uneven rhythm while remaining legible at headline sizes.
This font works best for posters, title cards, album art, and promotional graphics where a gritty, horror-leaning texture is desired. It’s well suited to short headlines, logos, and punchy callouts, especially on high-contrast backgrounds where the distressed silhouette can carry the design.
The overall tone is dark and confrontational, evoking horror titles, gritty underground flyers, and distressed print textures. Its roughened shapes and blotty edges feel noisy and urgent, adding a sense of menace and decay to short messages.
The design appears intended to deliver an instantly recognizable distressed voice—combining bold, compact letterforms with an intentionally damaged edge treatment to simulate worn printing, torn paper, or smeared ink.
The distressed treatment is consistent across caps, lowercase, and numerals, with frequent edge nicks and occasional interior erosion that can close up smaller counters. The texture reads strongest in larger settings, where the irregularities remain distinct rather than merging into solid blobs.