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Rough Cowboy + Nyxar
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Distressed western slab in two tones
Rough Cowboy
Rough Cowboy is a distressed western slab in brown and beige on cream: heavy capitals with thick flat serifs and a worn texture, printed in two tones so each letter reads as a stencil, with boots, hats, cacti and watercolour clouds around them.
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Cutting, print & workflow scorecard.
Fine grain and micro-texture excel in 300 DPI print, sublimation, and screen print rather than small vinyl weeding.
Plotter & output verdictPrint, DTF & Sublimation First
Recommended minimum scalePrint any scale · Vinyl 2.2 in+
Character set & structureUppercase, Lowercase & Numerals
OpenType & PUA accessStandard Latin, Figures & Punctuation
Best surfaces & mediaBrand Packaging · Social Graphics · Vinyl Decals
Compatible design toolsIllustrator · Affinity · Canva Pro · Cricut & Silhouette
Visual anatomy & craft review
Letterform structure
of Rough Cowboy.
Two words are stacked and the face is a western slab with a hard wear: the stems are heavy, the serifs are thick flats, the A and the V come to flat apexes, the R has a straight leg and the S closes into square shoulders, while the edges are bitten away in small pale patches that repeat across the letters evenly enough to stay readable. The two tones are used as a fill and a shadow, so each word reads as a stencil cut from board rather than a flat line of type, and the letter pairing is tight enough that a word reads as one object. Around the block a light watercolour ground carries a hat, a pair of boots, two cacti and soft clouds, and a banner line at the foot names the style. Rough Cowboy is a display face for posters, apparel, packaging and signage with a western theme, and it needs capitals at a large size and a warm, open ground.
Weathered, western, warm
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing Rough Cowboy with grounded secondary typography.
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Project & layout
blueprints.
Concrete hierarchy, scale and production guidance tailored to Rough Cowboy’s stroke geometry.
Sign for a pumpkin patch
A weathered western face suits a seasonal sign photographed by visitors, and the two-tone fill gives depth without a second plate.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 600 by 900 mm board: set the name at 150 pt over two lines, keep 36 mm of clear ground beneath before the dates at 28 pt, and hold 26 mm of margin on all four sides.
Pre-production check
A worn texture on a large board can look like damage; view one printed board from a few metres before the run.
Label for a small hot sauce
A cowboy slab gives a small bottle a rustic identity, and the heavy letters stay readable at the scale of a shelf label.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 50 by 80 mm label: set the brand at 16 pt on one line, keep 6 mm of clear ground beneath before the heat level at 5 pt, and hold 4 mm of margin on all four sides.
Pre-production check
Two tones on a small label can merge; print one on the real stock and check the contrast before the order.
Cover for a western title
A distressed slab names a book with the look of a painted sign, and the two-tone treatment gives a cover depth without a photograph.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 152 by 229 mm cover: set the title at 50 pt over two lines, keep 20 mm of clear ground beneath before the author at 11 pt, and hold 14 mm of margin on all four sides.
Pre-production check
Heavy wear on a small cover can look like a printing fault; proof one cover and reduce the texture if needed.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Display · Distressed western slab in two tones
- Foundry / creator
- Craft Artist
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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