Distressed Levi 2 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, event flyers, streetwear, game titles, grunge, handmade, edgy, raw, energetic, hand-painted feel, high impact, attitude, texture emphasis, brushy, ragged, textured, inked, slanted.
A rough, brush-driven italic with chunky strokes and strongly irregular outer edges. Letterforms are loosely constructed with variable stroke endings, torn-looking contours, and occasional dark blobs where strokes thicken, creating a dry-brush/ink-scrape texture. Counters stay relatively open but are uneven, and curves are slightly lopsided in a way that reads as hand-rendered rather than mechanically distressed. Overall spacing feels lively and inconsistent in a controlled way, with a forward slant and compact lowercase proportions that keep words tight and punchy.
Best suited to display uses where texture and attitude are assets: posters, album/mixtape covers, event flyers, packaging accents, and title treatments for games or video content. It can work for short bursts of copy or pull quotes, but is most effective in headlines, logos, and punchy callouts where the distressed brush texture remains legible.
The font conveys a gritty, rebellious tone—more streetwise than refined—with the urgency of quickly painted signage or marker-scrawled headlines. Its texture suggests wear, noise, and friction, giving text a high-impact, underground character suited to loud, expressive messaging.
The design appears intended to emulate fast, forceful hand-painted lettering with a deliberately worn, scratchy surface—capturing the imperfect ink spread and torn edges of a brush or marker under pressure. The consistent forward slant and heavy, textured strokes aim to deliver impact and personality rather than neutrality.
The distressed edge detail is prominent even at the glyph level, so the face visually darkens in longer lines of text and can appear quite dense at smaller sizes. The numerals and capitals maintain the same brushy irregularity as the lowercase, supporting a cohesive, roughened rhythm across mixed-case settings.