Distressed Gory 3 is a light, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: game titles, horror posters, fantasy branding, album covers, event flyers, arcane, hand-forged, gothic, ominous, folk, evoke inscription, add grit, create drama, thematic display, angular, chiseled, spiky, ragged, runic.
A jagged, angular display face with sharp terminals and irregular, chiseled-looking contours. Strokes taper unevenly and show torn or brush-dry edges, producing a rough, distressed texture throughout. Counters are small and often faceted, with several letters leaning toward diamond-like bowls and pointed joins. Spacing and glyph widths vary noticeably, reinforcing a hand-made rhythm; the lowercase echoes the uppercase forms with simplified, narrow structures and spurred ascenders/descenders.
Best suited to short headlines where texture and atmosphere are desirable—game and film titles, horror or fantasy posters, album/merch graphics, and themed packaging or signage. It can also work for pull quotes or section headers, but extended text will look dense and busy due to the distressed detailing.
The overall tone feels arcane and ritualistic, evoking carved inscriptions, dark-fantasy titling, and handmade signage. Its sharp geometry and frayed edges read as tense and dramatic rather than friendly or neutral.
The font appears designed to simulate hand-rendered, carved or ink-scratched lettering with a controlled angular skeleton and intentionally broken edges. The consistent use of spurs, facets, and diamond-like forms suggests an aim for a cohesive “inscribed” look that reads as mystical or medieval without becoming fully traditional blackletter.
The design relies on distinctive silhouette more than internal clarity: some characters share similar angular constructions, and the roughened edges add visual noise at smaller sizes. Numerals follow the same cut, scratchy logic, with irregular diagonals and pointed corners that keep the set stylistically consistent.