Distressed Tohi 7 is a very bold, narrow, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: horror posters, album covers, game titles, halloween promos, event flyers, horror, grunge, raw, menacing, comic, shock value, handmade grit, cinematic tension, edgy branding, brushy, ragged, torn, inky, dripping.
A heavy, ink-saturated display face with aggressively irregular contours and torn-looking terminals. Strokes read as brush-painted or stamped, with rough edge breakup and occasional drip-like protrusions that create a wet-ink silhouette. Counters are compact and uneven, and the texture is built into the letterforms rather than applied as an overlay, producing a consistently distressed rhythm across uppercase, lowercase, and numerals.
Best suited for short, high-impact settings such as titles, poster headlines, cover art, and promotional graphics where the distressed silhouette can be read as a stylistic feature. It works especially well at medium-to-large sizes on high-contrast backgrounds, and can add attitude to logos or wordmarks that aim for a rough, hand-painted look.
The overall tone is loud and confrontational, with a gritty, horror-leaning energy. Its ragged edges and inky blobs evoke handmade signage, thriller posters, and splattered paint, giving text a dramatic, slightly chaotic presence.
The design appears intended to deliver an immediate distressed, hand-made impression—like brushed ink dragged quickly across a surface and allowed to fray and drip. The goal is expressive texture and atmosphere over neutrality, prioritizing punchy display impact.
The alphabet shows deliberate inconsistency in edge detail and interior shaping, which enhances the handmade feel while keeping recognizable skeletons. The texture is strongest at terminals and joins, where small spikes, nicks, and droops add motion and visual noise that becomes more prominent at larger sizes.