Distressed Roruh 9 is a bold, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: poster, album cover, horror title, event flyer, game ui, grunge, horror, punk, raw, chaotic, grit effect, shock impact, diy look, aged print, torn, ragged, blotchy, eroded, hand-cut.
A heavy, uppercase-and-lowercase display face with aggressively irregular contours and frequent interior voids, as if cut from paper or inked through a damaged stencil. Strokes wobble and flare unpredictably, with jagged tears, bites, and dropouts along edges that create a strongly distressed silhouette. Counters are often partially collapsed or scarred, and verticals in several glyphs show scraped, striated texture. Proportions are broadly compact with variable character widths, producing an uneven rhythm that stays legible but intentionally unruly.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as posters, album/track artwork, horror or thriller titles, event flyers, and punchy on-screen headings in games. It can work for brief bursts of copy at larger sizes where the distressed detailing remains readable, but it is not ideal for long-form text.
The overall tone is abrasive and menacing, evoking DIY zines, underground flyers, and horror titling. Its torn-ink texture and unstable shapes suggest urgency, noise, and a rebellious, confrontational attitude.
The design appears intended to simulate degraded printing and torn materials while maintaining recognizable letterforms. Its emphasis on rough texture, broken counters, and inconsistent stroke edges suggests a deliberate goal of creating a gritty, handmade display voice for dramatic or subcultural themes.
In running text, the roughness becomes more pronounced: repeated characters do not feel mechanically uniform, and the texture creates a flickering color across lines. Round forms (like O/0) read as heavily damaged rings, while diagonals (like V/W/X) show sharp, splintered terminals that amplify the harsh, cut-up feel.