Distressed Jogo 9 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, album covers, stickers, merchandise, grungy, playful, handmade, rowdy, punk, impact, diy feel, texture, attitude, rough-edged, blobby, chunky, brushy, uneven.
A heavy, all-caps-friendly display face with chunky, rounded letterforms and visibly irregular contours. Strokes look brush- or marker-built with softened corners, occasional nicks, and slightly wobbly edges that create a worn, cutout-like silhouette. Counters are small and inconsistent, and widths vary from glyph to glyph, giving the alphabet a lively, hand-formed rhythm rather than a mechanical one. Numerals match the same thick, simplified construction and distressed perimeter treatment.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as posters, event titles, packaging accents, and cover art where the distressed edges can read as intentional texture. It also works well for logos or badges that want an informal, gritty attitude, particularly when set with generous spacing and ample size.
The overall tone is loud, scrappy, and energetic—more handmade than polished. Its rough texture reads as rebellious and casual, evoking DIY flyers, skate/punk ephemera, and bold cartoon signage.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact with a deliberately imperfect, hand-rendered finish. It prioritizes bold silhouette and expressive texture over typographic refinement, aiming for a DIY, distressed look that feels human and spontaneous.
In longer text, the uneven outlines and tight interiors add texture but also increase visual noise, especially where counters close up (notably in letters like a, e, s, and g). The strong silhouettes keep words recognizable at larger sizes, while fine edge detail becomes less distinct when reduced.