Distressed Lesy 2 is a bold, normal width, low contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, album art, event flyers, game titles, grunge, handmade, raw, rough, energetic, add texture, signal grit, feel handmade, create impact, brushy, ragged, dry-brush, textured, irregular.
A slanted, brush-driven display face with chunky strokes and heavily ragged contours. Letterforms are loosely constructed with variable stroke terminals and uneven edge texture, suggesting dry-brush or worn-ink application. Counters tend to be compact and sometimes partially occluded by the rough interior edges, while curves and diagonals feel springy and slightly inconsistent in width, reinforcing the handmade rhythm. Overall spacing reads moderately tight and lively, with a deliberately imperfect baseline and silhouette that favors impact over precision.
Best suited for short, high-impact settings such as posters, headlines, apparel graphics, album/cover art, and event promotions where texture is an asset. It can also work for punchy subheads or pull quotes, but extended body text may feel noisy due to the dense edge texture and irregular forms.
The font conveys a gritty, street-level energy—immediate, informal, and a bit rebellious. Its distressed texture and brisk slant create a sense of motion and urgency, lending a rugged, tactile tone suited to edgy or action-oriented messaging.
The design appears intended to emulate fast, forceful brush lettering with a distressed print finish, prioritizing attitude and tactility over clean geometry. Its consistent roughness across caps, lowercase, and figures suggests a deliberate goal of delivering a cohesive grunge brush look for display typography.
The uppercase is punchy and poster-like, while the lowercase keeps a quick handwritten cadence; both share the same torn-edge texture for consistent color on the page. Numerals match the rough brush character and remain readable at headline sizes, though fine texture may fill in at very small sizes or on low-resolution output.