Distressed Ekmo 1 is a very bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, stickers, merchandise, playful, grunge, handmade, comic, texture emphasis, diy feel, bold impact, informal tone, chunky, rounded, inked, speckled, roughened.
A heavy, rounded sans with irregular, hand-drawn contours and a consistently distressed fill. Strokes are thick and simplified, with soft corners and slightly wobbly geometry that varies subtly from glyph to glyph. The texture reads as pitted and speckled within the letterforms, as if ink coverage is uneven or the shapes were stamped and worn. Counters tend to be compact and organic, and terminals are blunt, contributing to a compact, punchy silhouette.
Best suited for display settings where texture and attitude are desired—posters, event flyers, playful branding moments, packaging callouts, stickers, and merchandise graphics. It can also work for short social headlines and playful labels, but the heavy distress makes it less appropriate for long-form text or small UI sizes.
The overall tone is playful and scrappy, combining a friendly, cartoon-like softness with a gritty, worn texture. It feels informal and energetic, with a DIY character that suggests printed ephemera, zines, or hand-made signage rather than polished corporate typography.
The design appears intended to deliver bold readability with a deliberately rough, ink-worn personality. By pairing rounded, simplified letterforms with an uneven fill texture, it aims to evoke hand-made printing and casual, expressive display typography.
Spacing and sidebearings appear comfortably open for such heavy shapes, helping the distressed interiors remain legible in short lines. The texture is a dominant feature and will intensify visually as sizes get larger, while at very small sizes the speckling may merge and darken the color.