Distressed Lesa 2 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, album art, headlines, merchandise, handmade, rugged, playful, raw, gritty, handmade feel, added texture, expressive display, diy character, brushy, organic, blotchy, textured, irregular.
A rough, hand-rendered sans with thick, brushy strokes and uneven, slightly blobby contours. Letterforms are mostly upright with simplified construction, open counters, and visibly inconsistent stroke edges that suggest dry-brush or worn ink. Proportions vary from glyph to glyph, with a compact lowercase that sits low against relatively tall ascenders, producing a sturdy, chunky rhythm. The overall color is dense and dark, with occasional nicks, waviness, and irregular terminals that create a distinctly tactile texture.
Best suited for short, high-impact settings where texture is a feature—posters, event flyers, album or playlist artwork, packaging callouts, and merchandise graphics. It can also work for punchy subheads or pull quotes, but the distressed edges and variable shapes are most effective at larger sizes where the handmade detail can be seen clearly.
The font conveys an informal, scrappy energy—part DIY, part poster paint—balancing friendliness with a gritty, distressed edge. Its imperfect outlines read as human and immediate, evoking handmade signage, rough printing, or expressive marker lettering rather than polished typography.
Likely designed to deliver a bold, human-made impression with deliberate roughness, mimicking brush or worn-print artifacts to add character and immediacy. The goal appears to be a distinctive display voice that feels casual and tactile rather than refined or strictly uniform.
In text, the heavy texture remains prominent and the irregular contours create a lively, slightly noisy line. Round shapes like O and 0 appear hand-drawn rather than geometric, and punctuation and dots carry the same ink-spread character, reinforcing the cohesive roughened look.