Distressed Leki 1 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, book covers, album art, title cards, prop design, typewritten, gritty, vintage, noir, hand-inked, aged print, grunge texture, period tone, authenticity, rough edge, ink spread, weathered, imperfect, uneven baseline.
A distressed, typewriter-like serif with chunky, bracketed slab forms and visibly irregular contours. Strokes show blotting and worn edges, with small nicks and soft corners that mimic ink spread and degraded printing. Letterforms are compact and sturdy, with slightly uneven stroke terminals and subtle, inconsistent alignment that adds a mechanical-but-imperfect rhythm across lines of text.
Well suited to headlines and short passages where texture is part of the message—posters, covers, title treatments, and themed packaging. It also works effectively in film/TV prop graphics (letters, reports, labels) where a rough, reproduced look is desirable.
The overall tone feels archival and gritty, like a photocopied report, old wanted poster, or battered manuscript page. Its roughened texture brings tension and atmosphere, leaning toward noir, mystery, and utilitarian authenticity rather than polish.
The design appears intended to recreate the character of old mechanical printing with deliberate degradation—introducing wear, ink gain, and imperfect impressions to produce a convincingly aged, tactile typographic voice.
Texture is consistent across uppercase, lowercase, and numerals, with the same worn printing artifacts appearing in counters and along stems. The alphabet reads clearly at display sizes, while the accumulated edge noise becomes a prominent stylistic feature as text blocks grow denser.