Distressed Tese 6 is a bold, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, album covers, event flyers, packaging, gritty, handmade, rugged, raw, noisy, distressed impact, analog texture, hand-printed feel, grunge display, rough, inked, torn-edge, irregular, condensed.
A condensed, heavy display face with ragged, broken contours and uneven stroke edges that mimic rough inking or worn printing. Forms are mostly upright with slightly inconsistent widths and a bouncy baseline feel in running text. Counters tend to be tight and occasionally pinched, with small nicks and bulges along stems and curves that create a textured silhouette. Terminals are blunt and irregular rather than cleanly finished, giving letters a stamped, distressed look even at larger sizes.
Best suited to short, high-impact text such as posters, headlines, event flyers, album/track artwork, or bold packaging accents where the rough texture can be appreciated. It can also work for title cards or pull quotes that benefit from an intentionally worn, analog feel, especially at medium-to-large sizes.
The overall tone is gritty and homemade, suggesting lo-fi production and a slightly menacing, high-energy attitude. Its rough texture reads as tactile and imperfect, evoking zines, posters, and hand-printed ephemera rather than polished editorial typography.
The design appears intended to deliver a strong condensed voice with deliberate imperfections—capturing the look of distressed print or rough brush/marker work while staying legible enough for punchy display settings.
In the sample paragraph, the distressed edge detail is a dominant feature and becomes part of the color of the text block; spacing and rhythm feel intentionally uneven. The condensed proportions help maintain a dense, loud presence, but the texture may reduce clarity at small sizes or in long passages.