Author's note

Very Damaged UL by Galdino Otten is a free eroded sans serif display font with tall, forceful letters and a scraped industrial surface. Broad strokes are scarred by chips, streaks, and missing patches.

Its distressed texture echoes torn posters, photocopied photographs, and weathered walls in music graphics. It suits concert merchandise, album packaging, underground event posters, and gritty editorial covers. Used with urban photography or collage, the broken letterforms can become part of the same layered surface rather than plain text.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
Galdino Otten, Copyright 2010
Font family
Very Damaged UL
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Very Damaged UL:Version 2.37
Full font name
Very Damaged UL
Name table version
Version 2.37 April 3, 2010
Postscript font name
VeryDamagedUL
Trademark notice
Galdino Otten, Copyright 2010
Manufacturer name
Monotype Typography, Inc.
Designer
Geoffrey Lee
Description
1965. Designed for the Stephenson Blake type foundry. A very heavy, narrow, sans serif face intended for use in newspapers, for headlines and in advertisements. Aptly named, this face has a very large "x" height with short ascenders and descenders.

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created2010-04-03
Revision2
Glyph count143
Units per Em2048
Embedding rightsEmbedding for editing allowed
Family classSans serif
WeightBold
WidthCondensed
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs
Pattern natureRegular
PitchNot monospaced