Distressed Kole 2 is a bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height, monospaced font.
Keywords: posters, album art, editorial, headlines, packaging, grunge, typewriter, punk, zine, lo-fi, add grit, simulate printwear, evoke diy print, create impact, rough, weathered, blotchy, textured, inked.
A heavy, monoline alphabet with chunky proportions and a consistent, typewriter-like skeleton. Strokes are thick and fairly uniform, while outlines and counters are aggressively irregular, as if produced by worn metal type, overloaded ink, or degraded photocopying. The texture creates broken edges, occasional pinholes, and lumpy terminals that soften geometry without turning the forms into cursive. Uppercase and lowercase maintain clear letter identities, with compact apertures and sturdy verticals that keep the design readable despite the noise.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings where texture is an asset: posters, album/merch graphics, zines, and bold editorial heads. It can also work for packaging or labeling that benefits from an aged, stamped, or photocopied look; for longer text, generous size and spacing will help preserve clarity.
The overall tone is gritty and analog, evoking DIY printing, underground flyers, and distressed editorial ephemera. It feels urgent and slightly abrasive, with a tactile, imperfect quality that suggests age, friction, and repeated reproduction.
The design appears intended to merge a utilitarian, fixed-width/typed structure with strong surface degradation, delivering a reliable rhythm while foregrounding grit and material imperfection. The goal is recognizable letterforms with an unmistakably worn, printed character.
Distressing is distributed across both the exterior contour and the interior counters, producing a speckled, eroded fill rather than just rough edges. The numeral set matches the same ink-worn texture, helping mixed alphanumeric settings feel cohesive.