Distressed Kypu 2 is a bold, narrow, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album covers, streetwear, event flyers, headlines, grunge, raw, punk, handmade, worn, add texture, signal grit, handmade feel, retro print, ragged, blotchy, inked, roughened, organic.
A heavy, compact sans with irregular, distressed contours that resemble stamped or brush-inked letterforms. Strokes are thick and largely monolinear, with edges that wobble and chip, creating uneven terminals and occasional ink build-up in curves and joints. The texture is consistent across caps, lowercase, and numerals, while widths vary slightly from glyph to glyph, reinforcing a hand-made rhythm rather than strict geometric regularity.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings where texture is an asset—posters, music and nightlife graphics, apparel marks, packaging accents, and bold headlines. It can also work for pull quotes or labels when ample size and spacing are available to keep the rough edges from crowding.
The overall tone is gritty and tactile, suggesting DIY production, worn printing, and a slightly aggressive, underground energy. Its rough perimeter and uneven color give it a raw, imperfect character that feels more expressive than polished.
The design appears intended to emulate imperfect print or hand-rendered lettering with a deliberately weathered surface, prioritizing attitude and tactility over clean typographic precision.
Counters stay mostly open despite the heavy weight, helping the sample text remain readable at larger sizes, though the distressed edges introduce visual noise in longer passages. The forms lean toward simple, workmanlike constructions, with the texture doing most of the stylistic work.