Distressed Ohma 5 is a bold, narrow, high contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, album covers, event promo, grunge, handmade, energetic, rustic, rebellious, handmade feel, tactile texture, display impact, edgy tone, brushy, inked, textured, organic, roughened.
A lively, brush-lettered face with thick, ink-heavy strokes and visibly ragged edges. Letterforms show strong stroke modulation with tapered starts and stops, irregular terminals, and occasional interior roughness that mimics dry-brush or worn printing. The rhythm is uneven in an intentional way: widths and sidebearings vary, curves wobble slightly, and counters are often partially closed by texture, giving the set a raw, hand-rendered consistency. Uppercase shapes are compact and punchy, while the lowercase maintains a casual handwritten flow with simplified, single-storey forms.
Best suited to display applications where texture and personality are desirable, such as posters, apparel graphics, packaging, album art, and bold social or event promotions. It can also work for short pull quotes or product names, especially when a hand-painted, rough-printed feel is needed; extended small-size body text may lose clarity due to the dense texture.
The overall tone feels gritty and expressive—more like a quickly painted sign or zine headline than polished editorial type. Its rough texture and impulsive stroke energy suggest immediacy, attitude, and a human touch, with a slightly vintage, workshop-made character.
The design appears intended to capture the look of quick brush signage and distressed ink on paper, prioritizing expressive stroke movement and tactile texture over geometric regularity. It aims to deliver high-impact, human character with a deliberately imperfect finish.
In text, the texture becomes a defining feature: dark areas pool where strokes overlap, and the distressed perimeter creates a soft, noisy silhouette. Numerals follow the same brush logic, reading clearly at display sizes while retaining the same handmade irregularity.