That being said, the hatchmarks seem to muddy up around most of the typing. That’s definitely suspect.
No. It simply is not suspect. In fact, it's completely predictable.
My comment to Brown Deer was a bit technical, but here's the deal: JPEG (which was used to encode this image) is a "lossy" compression. That means that the compressed image may suffer some distortion. This is a price you pay for better compression. PNG (pronounced "ping") files use a lossless compression, but they are usually much larger than a JPEG of the same image.
On of the distortions that is characteristic of JPEG images occurs around sharp edges. The "discrete cosine transform" used to encode the image is really good on smoothly-shaded things, but it has a very difficult time with sharp edges (we call these "delta functions"). The result is the distortion that you are seeing.
It's not suspect. It's math. Complex math (in more ways than one), but math and nothing more.