Distressed Yagi 5 is a regular weight, very wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, book covers, titles, logos, typewritten, gritty, vintage, analog, noisy, aged print, typewriter feel, analog texture, rugged display, slab serif, rounded corners, roughened, blotchy, ink spread.
A slab-serif, typewriter-like design with sturdy, blocky letterforms and a slightly uneven rhythm. Strokes are fairly consistent but show softened corners and ragged, eroded outlines, as if printed through a worn ribbon or on absorbent paper. Counters are open and simple, terminals are blunt, and the serifs read as squared slabs with small irregularities. The texture is applied consistently across caps, lowercase, and numerals, producing a deliberately imperfect, ink-worn silhouette.
Well suited to headlines and short passages where texture is part of the message—posters, editorial titles, book covers, and period-flavored branding. It also works for packaging and labels that aim for an industrial, stamped, or archival look, and for display typography in games or media that benefit from a worn, printed aesthetic.
The font conveys an analog, utilitarian tone—mechanical and documentary, but weathered and gritty. Its distressed edges suggest age, repetition, and physical printing artifacts, giving text an archival, lived-in character rather than a polished contemporary finish.
The design appears intended to emulate a classic typewriter or mechanical slab-serif voice while adding convincing wear from rough printing, ink spread, or abrasion. Its goal is legibility with character—communicating age and tactility without sacrificing the straightforward structure of a utilitarian text face.
The distress pattern varies subtly from glyph to glyph, creating a naturalistic, non-uniform print feel. At smaller sizes the roughness can merge into a darker color, while at larger sizes the torn contours and softened slab details become a prominent stylistic feature.