Distressed Ramar 3 is a bold, narrow, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, horror titles, event flyers, game graphics, grunge, handmade, raw, punk, spooky, impact, handmade feel, gritty texture, thematic tone, poster punch, brushy, jagged, roughened, inked, tattered.
A condensed, all-caps-forward display face with heavy, brush-like strokes and aggressively roughened contours. Stems and bowls are built from uneven, pressure-shifted marks that create strong thick–thin moments and occasional notches, giving each glyph a torn-ink silhouette. Terminals tend to be blunt or slightly tapered, counters are irregular, and spacing reads intentionally uneven for a hand-rendered rhythm. Numerals match the same distressed construction, with simplified forms and rugged edges that keep the set visually consistent in impact.
Best suited to display applications such as posters, album covers, festival or gig flyers, game title screens, and short headlines where the distressed outline can be appreciated. It can also work for packaging accents or branding marks that want a raw, handmade stamp feel, especially at larger sizes and with generous tracking.
The overall tone is gritty and confrontational, with a DIY, street-poster energy. Its distressed texture and scratchy stroke behavior also lean into horror and occult-adjacent atmospheres, making it feel urgent, loud, and a little menacing rather than polished or refined.
The design appears intended to mimic fast, forceful hand-painted or dry-brush lettering that has been photocopied, worn, or dragged across rough paper. The consistent distress and condensed proportions prioritize personality and impact over neutrality, aiming to deliver a gritty, thematic voice for attention-grabbing typographic moments.
In text settings, the rough perimeter creates a strong texture that can darken quickly, so the face reads best when given room to breathe. The uppercase and lowercase share a similar visual voice, with the lowercase maintaining the same rugged brush construction rather than becoming purely text-oriented.