Distressed Numap 3 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album covers, horror titles, event flyers, packaging, gritty, handmade, expressive, edgy, raw, diy texture, dramatic impact, handwritten feel, grunge effect, analog realism, brushy, roughened, textured, jagged, scratchy.
A condensed, slanted handwritten display face with brush-like strokes and intentionally uneven contours. Strokes show abrupt thicks and thins, with frayed terminals, occasional ink-blob joins, and a slightly wobbly baseline that reinforces its handmade construction. Letterforms are simplified and open, with tall ascenders and notably small lowercase bodies, creating a high vertical rhythm. Counters are irregular and spacing varies from glyph to glyph, producing a lively, distressed texture in both caps and lowercase.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as posters, headlines, album or podcast artwork, and event flyers where texture is desirable. It can also work for packaging accents and branding that wants a gritty handmade feel, but is less appropriate for long passages or small UI text due to its rough edges and uneven spacing.
The overall tone is rough, urgent, and streetwise—more marker-and-brush than polished calligraphy. Its imperfect edges and variable rhythm evoke DIY posters, zines, and worn printing, giving it a dramatic, rebellious energy.
The design appears intended to mimic fast brush lettering with distressed ink behavior, prioritizing character and atmosphere over typographic neutrality. Its condensed, slanted forms and roughened outlines aim to deliver immediate visual impact and an intentionally imperfect, analog texture.
Uppercase forms read as bold gestures with strong silhouettes, while the lowercase becomes more wiry and compact; together they create a mixed-case voice that feels informal and spontaneous. Numerals match the same rough brush handling and remain legible, though the irregular stroke endings add visual noise at smaller sizes.