Distressed Nibev 10 is a bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, album art, book covers, packaging, gritty, vintage, noir, industrial, raw, aged print, tactile texture, dramatic display, analog grit, roughened, inked, worn, blotchy, typewriter-like.
A heavily inked serif design with roughened, irregular outlines and frequent interior erosion that mimics worn printing. Letterforms are sturdy and compact in their bowls and counters, with slab-like serifs and a generally vertical stance. Stroke endings appear chipped and uneven, creating a jittery edge rhythm while maintaining consistent overall proportions. Spacing and widths vary slightly from glyph to glyph, reinforcing an analog, stamped impression in both caps and lowercase.
Best suited to short-to-medium settings where texture is a feature: poster headlines, editorial display, album and film titles, book covers, and packaging that benefits from a tactile, printed patina. It can also work for pull quotes or section headers when paired with a cleaner text face to preserve readability.
The texture reads as weathered and utilitarian, evoking archival documents, underground flyers, and hardboiled editorial tones. Its distressed printing character adds tension and attitude, leaning toward gritty storytelling and vintage-instrumented branding rather than polished corporate typography.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold, vintage printing voice by combining traditional slab-serif structure with deliberate wear, ink spread, and broken edges. It prioritizes atmosphere and materiality—suggesting letterpress, rubber stamp, or aged type—while keeping forms legible enough for expressive display typography.
At text sizes the ragged edges merge into a dense, mottled color, while larger settings reveal the intentional breakup along stems, serifs, and curves. Numerals carry the same distressed treatment and remain bold and attention-grabbing, with a hand-printed irregularity that keeps repeated characters from feeling too uniform.