Distressed Joni 2 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, stickers, album art, grunge, playful, handmade, retro, rowdy, analog texture, diy branding, retro impact, display punch, rough, blotchy, inked, chunky, rounded.
A heavy, rounded sans with chunky proportions and slightly uneven, hand-pressed contours. Strokes are thick and simplified, with soft corners and occasional nicks, chips, and inky voids that create a worn-print texture. Counters are generally compact and rounded, terminals tend to be blunt, and the overall rhythm feels intentionally irregular while remaining clearly legible at display sizes. Figures follow the same stout build with distressed hotspots that mimic imperfect inking.
Best suited to display applications where impact and texture are desirable: posters, flyers, event graphics, packaging callouts, merch, and social headers. It also fits branding for casual food/drink, craft goods, and retro-leaning campaigns where an imperfect print feel is an asset.
The texture and wobble give it a scrappy, energetic tone—like letterforms stamped, screened, or printed on rough stock. It reads friendly rather than menacing, with a casual, DIY attitude that suggests humor, spontaneity, and analog grit.
The design appears intended to deliver a high-impact display voice with an intentionally imperfect, analog finish—combining simple, rounded geometry with distressed printing artifacts to evoke handmade production and worn ephemera.
The distressing appears as both edge erosion and interior speckling, producing a consistent “ink breakup” effect across caps, lowercase, and numerals. The bold massing holds up well in short bursts, while the texture becomes a key part of the personality rather than a subtle accent.