Distressed Pulam 4 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, merch, album art, handmade, grungy, casual, rugged, playful, handmade feel, printed texture, informal display, diy character, dry-brush, inked, roughened, organic, uneven.
A hand-drawn, inked sans with dry-brush texture and visibly roughened edges. Strokes are mostly monolinear but show natural pressure changes, wobble, and occasional ink buildup, producing broken contours and irregular counters. Terminals are blunt and slightly frayed, and curves are loosely controlled, giving round forms a subtly lumpy silhouette. Spacing and widths feel informal and inconsistent in a deliberate way, helping the alphabet read like quick marker lettering rather than a strictly engineered grotesk.
Best suited to short headlines, posters, packaging callouts, and merchandise graphics where texture and personality are desirable. It can also work for album art, event promos, and social graphics, especially when paired with cleaner body text to preserve readability.
The overall tone is gritty and handmade, like lettering pulled from a sketchbook, zine, or rough screen print. Its imperfect texture adds energy and approachability, with a slightly rebellious, DIY attitude rather than a polished corporate voice.
The design appears intended to simulate quick, hand-rendered lettering with a worn, ink-on-paper feel, capturing the irregularities of brush or marker strokes. The goal is expressive impact and tactile texture rather than strict typographic uniformity.
Legibility holds up well in the sample text, but the distressed edges and uneven stroke behavior become more prominent as size increases, where the texture reads as a key stylistic feature. Numerals share the same casual construction, with rounded shapes and soft, brushy joins that keep them cohesive with the letters.