Distressed Rakoh 7 is a very bold, narrow, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, headlines, stickers, merch, grunge, punk, handmade, raw, playful, add texture, signal diy, create impact, evoke printwear, blotchy, inked, uneven, textured, chunky.
A compact, heavy display face with irregular, brushy contours and a visibly distressed fill. Strokes are thick and simplified, with occasional bulges, nicks, and pinholes that create a worn, ink-stamped impression. Curves are slightly lumpy and terminals are blunt, giving the letters a carved or daubed look rather than a clean geometric build. Overall spacing feels tight and rhythmic, while individual glyphs show small width and shape idiosyncrasies that reinforce the handmade character.
Best suited to short, high-impact text such as posters, event graphics, album or zine covers, packaging callouts, and merchandise graphics where texture is a feature. It can work for punchy subheads, but longer passages will benefit from larger sizes and generous line spacing to preserve legibility through the distressed details.
The font projects a scrappy, DIY energy with a gritty, street-level attitude. Its rough texture reads as rebellious and informal, but the rounded shapes and bouncy irregularity also add a mischievous, cartoonish warmth.
The design appears intended to deliver an expressive, tactile look reminiscent of rough brush lettering or imperfect printmaking, prioritizing atmosphere and personality over typographic neutrality. Its consistent grunge texture and blunt forms aim to add instant attitude to titles and branding moments.
Counters tend to be small and often partially occluded by texture, and the distressing appears both along edges and as interior voids, mimicking uneven ink coverage. Numerals match the letterforms’ chunky, mottled construction, keeping the overall voice consistent across the set.