Distressed Homaw 8 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, album covers, poster headlines, game ui, themed packaging, grunge, spooky, hand-inked, rough, occult, create tension, add texture, evoke decay, handmade feel, headline impact, ragged, textured, scratchy, blotty, uneven.
A distressed display face with jagged, broken contours and heavy ink texture that makes each stroke look scuffed and irregular. Letterforms are largely monoline but vary in apparent thickness due to rough edges, chips, and occasional interior erosion. Curves (C, O, G, Q) are lumpy and uneven, while straights (E, F, H, I) show wobble and frayed terminals. Overall spacing and widths are inconsistent in a hand-made way, creating an intentionally unstable rhythm in both capitals and lowercase.
Best suited for short, high-impact settings where texture is a feature: horror or thriller titles, event posters, album/merch graphics, game menus for dark or gritty themes, and packaging or labels that want a worn, handcrafted edge. It can work for brief subheads or pull quotes, but the heavy distressing favors larger sizes and ample tracking for clarity.
The font conveys a gritty, ominous energy—like smeared ink, scratched signage, or worn printing. Its roughness reads as rebellious and eerie, lending a horror-leaning, underground tone that feels more hand-crafted than mechanical.
The design appears intended to simulate rough hand-inked or degraded print forms, prioritizing atmosphere and texture over typographic regularity. Its uneven outlines and eroded details are tuned to create a dramatic, theme-forward voice for display typography.
Caps have a sharp, slightly calligraphic silhouette with frequent nicks and hooked terminals, while the lowercase maintains the same distressed texture at a smaller scale, making fine details more apparent. Numerals are similarly weathered and irregular, with open counters and chipped joins that add to the raw, analog look.