Distressed Esli 9 is a regular weight, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, album art, headlines, stickers, handmade, grunge, playful, raw, casual, handmade feel, worn print, casual display, texture emphasis, rough, textured, uneven, blotchy, scratchy.
A hand-drawn, monoline display face with noticeably rough, distressed contours and occasional interior speckling that mimics dry-brush ink or worn stamping. Strokes show uneven pressure and slight wobble, with rounded terminals and irregular joins that create a lively, imperfect rhythm. Letterforms are generally simple and open, with mixed curve quality (some segments more angular or kinked) and subtly inconsistent widths from glyph to glyph. Numerals follow the same handmade logic, with organic curves and slightly lopsided proportions.
Well suited for posters, event flyers, album/cover art, and packaging that benefits from a handmade or weathered print impression. It also works for short headlines, labels, and social graphics where texture is part of the message, rather than for dense body copy.
The overall tone is informal and tactile, leaning toward DIY craft and lo-fi printing. Its distressed edges and inky texture add attitude and a slightly rebellious, street-poster feel while remaining friendly and readable at display sizes.
The design appears intended to capture the look of quick marker lettering or rough inked forms reproduced through imperfect printing. Its controlled simplicity keeps forms recognizable while using distress and stroke variation to inject character and grit.
In text, the texture becomes a prominent feature and can create visual noise in long passages; the face reads best when given space and sized large enough for the distressed detail to resolve cleanly. The irregularity is consistent across caps, lowercase, and figures, which helps maintain a cohesive, intentionally rough voice.