Distressed Pubub 7 is a bold, narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: horror posters, album covers, game titles, halloween promos, event flyers, horror, gothic, grunge, occult, vintage, add menace, evoke gothic, simulate wear, create texture, increase impact, spiky, ragged, jagged, eroded, inked.
A condensed display face with blackletter-inspired structure and heavily distressed contours. Strokes are weighty and mostly vertical, with sharp wedges, torn-looking terminals, and irregular edges that create a rough, ink-worn silhouette. Counters are small and uneven, and the texture is consistent across caps, lowercase, and numerals, producing a gritty rhythm and a slightly chaotic surface while keeping letterforms recognizable.
Best suited to short display settings such as titles, logos, and attention-grabbing headers where texture is a feature rather than a distraction. It works particularly well for horror and dark-fantasy packaging, posters, album artwork, and game/UI title treatments, and can add a weathered gothic accent to branding when used sparingly.
The overall tone is dark and theatrical, evoking horror, occult ephemera, and weathered gothic signage. Its ragged bite and spiky terminals suggest menace and mystery, with a vintage, printed-from-a-worn-block feel.
The design appears intended to merge gothic/blackletter cues with deliberate wear and tearing to simulate degraded printing or corroded lettering. Its goal is high-impact atmosphere and texture rather than clean, continuous reading.
The distressing creates strong texture and visual noise, especially in dense text, so spacing and size will greatly affect clarity. The condensed proportions help it stack in narrow layouts, while the irregular outlines give it an intentionally imperfect, handmade impression.