Distressed Pudub 8 is a regular weight, narrow, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, gothic posters, game branding, album covers, event flyers, gothic, horror, occult, dramatic, medieval, atmosphere, antiqued feel, shock value, gothic flair, spiky, jagged, inked, textured, blackletter-leaning.
A sharp, blackletter-influenced display face with narrow proportions and high-contrast strokes. Letterforms are built from pointed terminals, wedge-like serifs, and irregular, thorny contours that create a distressed, ink-worn texture without fully breaking the counters. Vertical stems dominate, while curves and bowls remain slightly angular, producing a tense rhythm and a dark, chiseled silhouette. Spacing feels compact and lively, with noticeable variation in glyph widths and a hand-printed unevenness that reads as intentional grit.
Best suited for short to medium-length display settings such as titles, headlines, logos, and atmospheric packaging. It works particularly well for horror, dark fantasy, metal or goth music collateral, and game or film promotions where a distressed blackletter flavor reinforces the theme.
The overall tone is ominous and theatrical, evoking gothic signage, horror titling, and occult or fantasy world-building. Its spiked edges and uneven inking suggest age, danger, and ritual—more haunted manuscript than polished editorial typography.
The design appears intended to deliver a dramatic gothic voice with a distressed, ink-torn surface, balancing recognizability with menace. It aims to feel hand-printed and timeworn, prioritizing mood and silhouette impact over neutral readability in body text.
In the sample text, the texture holds together best at larger sizes where the jagged details read as character rather than noise. Numerals and capitals carry especially strong, poster-like silhouettes, while the lowercase maintains the same prickly finish for consistent mood across mixed-case settings.