Distressed Pulir 14 is a bold, narrow, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album covers, game titles, horror ui, packaging, gritty, vintage, noisy, punk, horror, distress effect, aged print, raw impact, diy texture, grunge tone, eroded, roughened, inked, blotchy, handmade.
A condensed, all-caps-forward display face with heavy, uneven strokes and aggressively roughened contours. The letterforms are built from simple, upright skeletons, but their edges are jagged and chipped, with frequent ink bite-outs and pitted interiors that mimic worn metal type or distressed stamping. Counters are often irregular and partly occluded, and terminals tend to end in blunt, broken shapes rather than clean cuts. Spacing and widths vary noticeably across glyphs, contributing to a restless rhythm while still maintaining a consistent vertical posture.
Best suited for short headlines and display applications where the distressed texture can be a primary visual element—posters, event flyers, album artwork, game or film title cards, and gritty brand accents. It can also work for labels or packaging where a worn, stamped aesthetic is desired, but it will be most effective when given enough size and contrast to preserve its rough details.
The overall tone feels gritty and abrasive, like aged printing pulled from a damaged plate or a DIY poster run through harsh ink and paper. It reads as rebellious and raw, leaning toward underground, horror-tinged, and retro-industrial atmospheres rather than polished editorial refinement.
The design appears intended to simulate degraded ink and weathered letterpress or stamped lettering while keeping the underlying forms straightforward and legible. Its irregular outlines and pocked counters are used as a stylistic layer to add urgency and attitude without fully abandoning recognizable glyph structures.
At text sizes the texture becomes a dominant feature, with small gaps and notches forming a grainy pattern across words. Numerals and lowercase follow the same distressed logic, helping maintain a cohesive, intentionally degraded look across mixed-case settings.