Distressed Emdeh 7 is a very bold, very wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, stickers, merch, playful, grungy, quirky, cartoonish, retro, impact, handmade, weathered, novelty, display, chunky, rounded, blobby, roughened, inked.
A heavy, rounded display face with chunky, soft-cornered forms and an intentionally uneven silhouette. Strokes appear like thick ink or paint applied with pressure, producing wavy contours, occasional dents, and slightly inconsistent widths from glyph to glyph. Interiors show distressed speckling and irregular counters, adding a worn, screen-printed feel. The overall rhythm is bouncy and informal, with simple construction and broad proportions that keep letterforms highly massed and compact.
Best suited to short, high-impact text such as posters, headlines, event graphics, and bold packaging or label applications where texture is desirable. It also fits playful branding, stickers, and merchandise graphics, especially when a rough print or DIY aesthetic is part of the concept.
The font conveys a playful, hand-made attitude with a grungy edge, mixing friendliness with a rough, poster-like punch. Its irregular texture and blobby shapes read as casual and expressive rather than refined or technical.
Likely designed to deliver maximum visual impact with a friendly, cartoon-like structure, then tempered with distressing to suggest wear, rough printing, or handmade production. The goal appears to be an attention-grabbing display style that feels tactile and imperfect.
The distressing is present both on outer edges and within fills, so large sizes preserve character while small sizes may lose clarity as texture and counters compete. Numerals and lowercase maintain the same chunky, irregular treatment, reinforcing a cohesive, stamped/printed look across the set.