Distressed Rodut 5 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, album covers, game titles, grunge, ransom-note, playful, edgy, handmade, add grit, create tension, handmade feel, standout display, jagged, chipped, angular, irregular, blocky.
A chunky, angular display face with uneven contours, faceted corners, and noticeably roughened edges. Strokes look cut or stamped rather than drawn, with irregular interior counters and small nicks that create a worn, distressed texture. Proportions vary from glyph to glyph, producing an intentionally inconsistent rhythm; widths and sidebearings feel loose, and many forms lean toward squarish, block-like construction. Numerals and capitals carry the heaviest presence, while lowercase maintains the same rugged geometry with simplified, compact shapes.
Best suited to display use: posters, event flyers, title cards, and branding moments where a rough, handmade punch is desirable. It can work well for entertainment and themed projects such as horror, Halloween, punk/garage aesthetics, or gritty streetwear packaging, and it’s most effective in short lines where the irregular rhythm reads as intentional character.
The overall tone is gritty and mischievous, suggesting DIY signage, photocopied flyers, and cutout lettering. Its rough, broken silhouettes read as rebellious and a little chaotic, with a playful menace that fits horror-leaning or punk-adjacent themes without becoming ornate.
Designed to evoke distressed cut-letter or rough-printed forms with a bold, blocky silhouette and deliberate inconsistency. The aim appears to be strong visual impact and thematic texture over neutrality, giving designers a quick way to inject grit and attitude into headlines.
The distressed detail is built into the letterforms rather than applied as an overlay, so the texture remains consistent at larger sizes. At smaller sizes the chipping and angular joins can reduce clarity, especially in tight text settings, while the font becomes more expressive and legible as a headline or short-phrase face.