Distressed Sode 10 is a very bold, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album covers, horror titles, event flyers, game titles, grunge, spooky, punk, raw, noisy, add grit, evoke decay, create impact, handmade feel, ragged, roughened, inked, eroded, textured.
A heavy, blocky display face with aggressively roughened outlines and irregular counters that suggest ink bleed, wear, or torn-paper texture. Stems and bowls keep mostly straightforward, upright construction, but edges are consistently jagged, creating a vibrating silhouette and uneven interior voids. Spacing appears moderately open for a distressed style, while the texture introduces natural-looking variability that keeps repeated forms from feeling too mechanical.
Best used for short, high-impact setting such as headlines, titles, and branding marks where the texture can be appreciated. It fits especially well in horror, punk/metal, Halloween, or gritty editorial graphics, and can work for packaging or merchandise where a worn, stamped look is desired.
The overall tone is gritty and abrasive, with a horror-adjacent, underground attitude. Its rough texture reads as handmade or degraded printing, lending a loud, confrontational presence suited to dark or rebellious themes.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold display voice with a deliberately degraded, tactile surface—combining simple letter skeletons with heavy distressing to evoke rough printing, decay, or a handmade grunge aesthetic.
The distressing is applied consistently across capitals, lowercase, and numerals, preserving legibility at larger sizes while adding significant visual noise in continuous text. The heavy mass and torn edges create strong black shapes that can quickly dominate a layout, especially in long lines.