Distressed Nabu 7 is a regular weight, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, book covers, packaging, headlines, editorial, typewriter, vintage, gritty, tactile, aged print, analog texture, period feel, utility tone, inked, roughened, uneven, blunt, textured.
A serifed text face with sturdy, blunt terminals and visibly roughened contours that mimic worn metal type or uneven inking. Strokes show mild modulation and slightly inconsistent edges, producing a soft, battered outline rather than crisp geometry. Proportions are generously set with ample sidebearings, and the overall rhythm feels mechanical yet imperfect, with small shape variations and occasional lumpy corners that read like print artifacts.
Works well for posters, book covers, and packaging that benefit from an aged, printed feel. It suits headlines and short passages in editorial layouts, pull quotes, or labels where a tactile, archival voice is desired, and can add character to branding that references craft, history, or analog production.
The texture and irregular printing character convey a vintage, archival tone with a gritty, analog tactility. It suggests utilitarian documents, old posters, and photocopied or stamped materials—familiar, matter-of-fact, and slightly weathered.
Likely designed to capture the look of old typewriter or letterpress output with controlled legibility, combining traditional serif structures with deliberate wear and inking irregularities to create a convincingly printed texture.
The distressed treatment is consistent across capitals, lowercase, and numerals, with the roughness concentrated at curves and stroke ends, as if from ink spread or worn edges. The sample text remains readable at paragraph sizes, though the texture becomes more prominent as sizes increase.