Distressed Tehi 7 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, album covers, headlines, quotes, handmade, rustic, playful, grunge, casual, handmade feel, tactile texture, casual display, craft aesthetic, brushy, rough-edged, organic, uneven, rounded.
A hand-drawn, brush-like sans with irregular contours and softly rounded forms. Strokes show visible wobble and pressure variation, with slightly frayed edges and occasional ink-bloat that create a worn, stamped/painted feel. Proportions are generally compact with open counters, but letter widths and curve tension vary from glyph to glyph, reinforcing an improvised, marker-on-paper rhythm. Numerals and lowercase share the same casual construction, with simple, single-storey forms and straightforward terminals.
Best suited for display settings where a handmade, textured voice is desirable—posters, packaging, menus, event flyers, album art, and social graphics. It can work for short paragraphs or captions when set with generous size and leading, but the rough edges and irregular rhythm favor headlines, pull quotes, and branding accents over dense, small-size reading.
The overall tone is friendly and informal, with a tactile, imperfect texture that reads as homemade rather than polished. Its roughness adds a mildly gritty, vintage-craft energy while keeping an approachable, humorous voice in text.
This design appears intended to emulate quick brush/marker lettering with intentional imperfections, combining simple sans structures with distressed edges to deliver an authentic, craft-forward look. The goal is character and texture first, with legibility maintained through open shapes and straightforward letterforms.
Spacing appears fairly even in text, but the natural irregularity of stroke edges and varying character widths creates a lively, slightly noisy color across longer lines. The distressed surface character is most noticeable at larger sizes where the edge texture and stroke waviness become part of the design.