Distressed Hodas 6 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album covers, event flyers, horror titles, streetwear, grungy, handmade, raw, edgy, punk, add texture, create grit, diy feel, headline impact, analog print, rough, textured, choppy, scratchy, inked.
A tall, condensed, hand-rendered sans with uneven stroke edges and frequent nicks and gaps that create a dry-brush, worn-ink texture. Stems stay mostly vertical and straight, but terminals are jagged and slightly flared, giving letters a cut-paper or scraped-ink finish. Curves are narrow and somewhat angular, counters are tight, and spacing feels irregular by design, producing a lively, imperfect rhythm. Figures and capitals share the same distressed, ink-bitten surface and slightly wobbly outlines, keeping the set visually consistent.
Works well for display settings such as posters, gig and event flyers, album artwork, game or film titles, and packaging that benefits from a rough, handmade attitude. It can also serve as an accent face for short headers or pull quotes when paired with a clean text font.
The overall tone is gritty and analog, with a DIY energy that reads as rebellious and a little menacing. The distressed texture adds a tactile, underground feel, like photocopied flyers or painted lettering that has been weathered.
This design appears intended to deliver a condensed display voice with deliberately degraded edges, simulating rough printing or scratched brush lettering. The goal is impact and texture over neutrality, creating an immediate, gritty presence in headlines and title treatments.
The condensed proportions and rough perimeter make the font most compelling at larger sizes where the texture and irregularities can be appreciated; at small sizes the distressed details and tight counters may visually fill in. The letterforms keep a simple, mostly monoline construction, letting the abrasion and uneven edges carry the character.