Distressed Itgan 3 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, album art, packaging, labels, grungy, rustic, handmade, punk, playful, add texture, evoke printwear, diy character, vintage grit, roughened, choppy, inked, uneven, blotchy.
A heavy, roughened serif with irregular, chiseled contours and uneven stroke terminals that mimic worn stamping or hand-cut lettering. The letterforms keep generally traditional serif proportions, but edges wobble and bite in and out, creating a mottled silhouette and occasional interior notches. Curves are slightly squarish and lumpy, counters are compact, and round letters (O, Q, G) feel carved rather than drawn. Spacing and sidebearings read loosely calibrated, contributing to a lively, imperfect rhythm in words and lines.
Best suited to display applications where texture and attitude are desirable—posters, headlines, merchandise graphics, album covers, and packaging or label designs that want a hand-printed feel. It can also work for short bursts of text (taglines, pull quotes) when a rugged, vintage-leaning voice is needed.
The overall tone is gritty and tactile, like ink pressed into textured paper or type pulled from an aged poster. It conveys a DIY, slightly mischievous energy—more barroom flyer and back-alley broadside than polished editorial typography.
The design appears intended to deliver the impact of a bold serif while injecting analog imperfection—suggesting worn metal type, rough screen printing, or hand-carved lettering. Its goal is character and tactility over refinement, giving familiar letter structures a distressed, streetwise edge.
The distressed texture is consistent across caps, lowercase, and numerals, with especially pronounced irregularity on horizontals and at joins, where small nicks and bulges appear. In text, the chunky shapes hold up at display sizes, while the rough perimeter becomes the primary visual feature as size increases.