Distressed Gojy 3 is a regular weight, narrow, high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, thriller posters, album art, event flyers, game titles, gritty, eerie, handmade, raw, dark, create tension, add grit, simulate wear, handmade look, rough-edged, blotchy, inked, textured, scratchy.
A rough, ink-worn display face with irregular contours, broken interiors, and occasional drip-like terminals. Strokes alternate between thin, wiry connections and heavier, blotted masses, creating an uneven rhythm and a visibly distressed silhouette. Letterforms are generally upright but intentionally inconsistent in width and detailing, with pinched joins, notched edges, and patchy fill that reads like degraded printing or smeared brush ink.
Works best at larger sizes where the erosion, blots, and thin spikes remain legible and contribute to the atmosphere. Well suited to headlines, posters, covers, title cards, and short bursts of text that benefit from a distressed, ominous texture; for longer passages, generous tracking and leading help keep the rough edges from clumping.
The overall tone is gritty and unsettling, with a handmade, weathered character that suggests decay, grime, and suspense. Its distressed texture and sharp, scratchy details give it a tense, horror-leaning mood while still retaining a playful, zine-like informality in longer lines of text.
Likely designed to evoke worn ink and battered printing, combining narrow, upright structures with aggressive distressing to create immediate impact. The goal appears to be strong thematic signaling—grit, unease, and handmade energy—rather than smooth uniformity or quiet readability.
The texture varies noticeably from glyph to glyph, with some characters showing more erosion and voids than others, which amplifies the handmade impression. Numerals and punctuation carry the same blot-and-scratch treatment, maintaining the distressed voice across mixed content.