Distressed Puluh 5 is a very bold, narrow, high contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, album art, apparel, gritty, handmade, energetic, vintage, streetwise, expressiveness, authenticity, impact, grunge texture, hand-painted feel, brushy, roughened, inked, imperfect, organic.
A heavy, brush-driven display face with irregular, textured edges and visibly uneven stroke contours that mimic dry ink or rough printing. Letterforms lean forward with compact proportions and slightly inconsistent widths, creating a lively rhythm across words. Terminals are blunt and often tapered, counters are tight, and curves show small dents and wobble that reinforce the hand-made construction while keeping shapes broadly legible.
Best suited for large-format headlines and punchy display settings such as posters, music/event graphics, apparel, stickers, and bold packaging. It works well when you want a handcrafted, worn-print feel in short phrases, labels, or promotional callouts, and can also add character to mastheads and section titles in editorial layouts.
The overall tone is bold and gritty, with a DIY immediacy that feels urban and raw. Its rough ink texture and forward slant project motion and attitude, suggesting informal, expressive messaging rather than polished corporate voice. The look lands between street poster energy and worn, vintage print character.
The design appears intended to deliver a forceful, hand-painted brush look with built-in wear and print roughness. By combining a forward-leaning stance with uneven stroke texture, it aims to feel fast, expressive, and intentionally imperfect—like lettering pulled from a distressed poster or painted sign.
Texture is integral to the design: both interiors and outer contours show speckling and bite marks that will become more pronounced at larger sizes and may fill in at very small sizes. The numerals share the same brushy, distressed construction, supporting consistent use in headlines, price callouts, and short bursts of copy.