Distressed Ekvu 3 is a very bold, wide, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album covers, event flyers, horror titles, game titles, grunge, horror, punk, chaotic, handmade, shock value, gritty texture, thematic display, handmade feel, ragged, eroded, blotchy, spiky, organic.
A heavy display face with aggressively irregular contours and heavily distressed counters. Strokes appear brushy and torn, with jagged protrusions and pitted interiors that create a mottled silhouette. Letterforms are generally upright with mostly blocky, simplified construction, while widths vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, adding a rough, uneven rhythm in words and lines. The texture is consistent across capitals, lowercase, and numerals, producing bold, ink-blot forms that remain legible but intentionally coarse.
Best suited for short, high-impact settings such as posters, headlines, title cards, and packaging where the distressed texture can be a feature. It works particularly well for music and nightlife promotion, horror-themed graphics, and edgy branding, and is less appropriate for long-form reading or small UI text where the internal erosion can clog.
The overall tone is raw and abrasive, evoking grunge flyers, punk ephemera, and horror or Halloween atmospheres. Its damaged edges and scratchy presence read as loud, unruly, and intentionally imperfect—more about attitude than refinement.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold headline voice with a deliberately damaged, worn print/ink aesthetic. By combining chunky forms with aggressive edge breakup and inconsistent widths, it prioritizes mood and texture for thematic display use.
Spacing and sidebearings feel naturally uneven due to the broken outlines, which can create dense dark patches at text sizes. The distressed counters and chipped terminals become a prominent graphic texture, especially in rounded letters and numerals.