Distressed Puden 7 is a regular weight, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
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A rough, brush-and-ink styled roman with jagged, irregular contours and visibly distressed counters. Strokes show uneven thickness with sharp, torn-looking terminals and occasional blobby buildup, suggesting dry-brush pressure changes and imperfect ink transfer. The letterforms keep clear, mostly conventional skeletons and proportions, but the outlines wobble and chip, creating a lively, noisy texture across both uppercase and lowercase. Curves are slightly angularized by the rough edge treatment, and spacing feels moderately open, helping the heavily textured shapes stay readable at display sizes.
This font works best for short to medium-length display text where the distressed texture can be appreciated—titles, headlines, pull quotes, and packaging callouts. It is particularly effective in music and event promotion, genre fiction covers, and editorial or branding systems that lean into a gritty, handcrafted aesthetic. For long body copy or small UI text, the heavy edge noise may reduce clarity.
The overall tone feels gritty and handmade, with a worn, photocopied or stamped-on-paper attitude. It reads as expressive and a bit ominous, well-suited to designs that want an unpolished, street-level or horror-adjacent edge rather than refinement.
The design appears intended to deliver a traditional, readable roman framework while overlaying it with pronounced wear and brushy degradation. It aims to mimic imperfect printing or rough lettering to add immediacy and atmosphere without becoming abstract.
Texture intensity is fairly consistent across the set, but individual glyphs show natural-looking variation in roughness and ink pooling that adds character. The numerals and capitals carry especially strong silhouette presence, while the lowercase retains a straightforward, print-like structure beneath the distressing.