Distressed Gohi 3 is a regular weight, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, t-shirts, band flyers, event promos, rough, handmade, vintage, playful, grunge, add texture, evoke print wear, handmade feel, casual display, diy branding, textured, weathered, blotchy, chalky, irregular.
A compact, sans-serif letterform with uneven, distressed outlines and speckled interior voids that mimic worn ink or rough printing. Strokes are mostly straight and sturdy with subtly wavering edges; curves (C, O, Q) stay fairly round but show abrasion and small nicks along the perimeter. Terminals are blunt and slightly softened, and counters tend to be open and generous for the size, helping legibility despite the texture. Overall rhythm is steady, with small, intentional irregularities from glyph to glyph that keep the set cohesive while maintaining a handmade, imperfect finish.
Well-suited to display applications where texture is a feature: posters, apparel graphics, labels and packaging, craft or handmade branding, and promotional materials that want an imperfect printed feel. It can work for short paragraphs or captions in larger sizes, but the distressed details are most effective in headlines, pull quotes, and signage-style text.
The font communicates a tactile, rough-hewn tone—like stamped type, screen print, or chalky signage that has been handled and weathered. Its friendly proportions and simplified shapes keep it approachable, while the distress adds grit and a casual, DIY attitude.
The design appears intended to deliver a clean, readable sans structure while layering on a controlled distressed texture to evoke worn print and handmade production. It prioritizes quick recognition of letterforms, then adds character through abrasion, speckling, and slightly irregular stroke edges.
The distress pattern appears consistently distributed as small pits and worn edges rather than dramatic tears, so the texture reads clearly at display sizes and begins to soften into a darker mass as sizes decrease. Numerals follow the same straightforward construction and share the same abraded surface, supporting cohesive headline and poster use.