Distressed Fizo 6 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, streetwear, event flyers, horror titles, grunge, handmade, raw, playful, edgy, distressed texture, handmade feel, poster impact, diy aesthetic, roughened, inked, blotchy, ragged, uneven.
A casual, hand-rendered sans with thick, uneven strokes and heavily roughened edges that mimic worn ink or distressed printing. Letterforms are simple and upright with mostly rounded joins and occasional angular terminals, while counters and bowls show irregular bite marks and small voids. The baseline and proportions feel loosely controlled, with noticeable variation in stroke thickness and glyph width that adds an organic rhythm, especially in round characters and diagonals. Numerals follow the same handmade construction, with open, sketchy curves and slightly lopsided geometry.
Best suited for display contexts where texture and attitude are desirable—posters, flyers, album/playlist artwork, packaging accents, and themed headings. It can work well for bold short lines, logos, and promotional graphics where the distressed edge helps convey grit and immediacy, rather than for long-form reading.
The overall tone is gritty and informal, suggesting a DIY, street-poster sensibility with a slightly mischievous, energetic character. It reads as human and imperfect—more expressive than polished—bringing a tactile, gritty texture to headlines and short phrases.
Designed to capture the look of hand-painted or roughly printed lettering with deliberate wear and ink breakup, prioritizing expressive texture and a handmade feel over typographic precision. The set aims to deliver an instant distressed aesthetic without additional graphic treatment.
Texture is a primary feature: the distressing appears throughout both outlines and interiors, so the font’s color on the page can look mottled at smaller sizes. The irregular contours create strong visual personality, but also introduce variability in apparent weight and spacing from glyph to glyph.