Distressed Ihnez 3 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, festival posters, book covers, game ui, craft branding, grunge, folkloric, eerie, rustic, handmade, add texture, evoke age, create unease, handmade feel, print wear, rough edge, ink bleed, wobbly, irregular, weathered.
A rough, hand-drawn serif style with uneven outlines and a slightly wavy baseline rhythm. Strokes show irregular thickness and knobbly terminals that feel like ink drag or worn printing, with small dents and bulges along curves and stems. Serifs are simplified and inconsistent, sometimes reading as blunt flares rather than crisp brackets, and bowls/counters are slightly misshapen. Spacing feels organically varied, and the overall texture is intentionally noisy, giving the alphabet a distressed, analog imprint.
Best suited to display work where texture is an asset: horror or mystery titles, distressed poster headlines, game menus, and atmospheric packaging. It can also support rustic or handmade branding for short logotypes and labels, but the rough contours are likely too busy for long passages at small sizes.
The font carries a gritty, storybook-meets-broadsheet tone—equal parts rustic and ominous. Its distressed edges suggest age, decay, or handmade craft, lending a subtly unsettling, folkloric character that can also read as playful in short phrases.
The design appears intended to mimic worn ink or weathered print—capturing the imperfections of hand-rendered letterforms and degraded reproduction. Its goal is to add instant atmosphere and tactility rather than typographic neutrality.
Uppercase forms feel tall and narrow with angular joins, while lowercase maintains a compact, lively rhythm with noticeable wobble in stems and diagonals. Numerals keep the same roughened contour and remain clear at display sizes, though the texture becomes a dominant feature as size increases.