Distressed Naba 6 is a regular weight, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, book covers, album art, title cards, packaging, gritty, vintage, analog, worn, noir, aged print, tactile texture, period tone, narrative grit, rough edges, inky, blotchy, weathered, textured.
A serifed, typewriter-adjacent roman with sturdy proportions and moderately open counters, overlaid with heavy distressing. Strokes show uneven edges and occasional blot-like bulges, as if from worn type or absorbent paper, creating a lively, broken contour. The rhythm remains fairly even across words, with a slightly rugged baseline feel; numerals match the same rough, inked treatment for a cohesive set.
It works best for short-to-medium text where texture is part of the message: posters, title cards, and editorial headlines that want a printed-from-the-past feel. It’s also well suited to book covers, album artwork, and packaging where an aged, tactile surface can add narrative character.
This font projects a gritty, analog tone, with the visual noise and uneven inking associated with worn printing. The overall impression is utilitarian and vintage, leaning toward investigative, archival, and slightly ominous moods rather than polished modernity.
The design appears intended to emulate imperfect, inked type with softened corners, slight bite marks, and irregular outlines, while preserving classic serif structures for readability. The goal is a dependable text voice with added patina—suggesting age, wear, and physical printing rather than digital cleanliness.
The texture is consistent across the alphabet and numerals, so the distress reads as an intentional treatment rather than random corruption. In running text the rough edges remain prominent, while the underlying letterforms stay recognizable and steady.