Distressed Vubo 2 is a very bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, merch, album art, gritty, playful, handmade, comic, rowdy, handmade impact, tactile texture, casual voice, attention grab, brushy, blotchy, chunky, uneven, rounded.
A heavy, brushy display face with rounded, simplified letterforms and visibly irregular outlines. Strokes look pressure-made and slightly blotted, producing soft corners, uneven terminals, and small edge wobble throughout. Counters are often compact and slightly misshapen, and the rhythm is intentionally inconsistent, giving the alphabet an energetic, handmade cadence. Numerals share the same chunky, painted construction with occasional asymmetry and varying curve tension.
Best suited to display sizes where the textured edges and chunky strokes can do the work—posters, titles, packaging callouts, stickers, and merch graphics. It also fits editorial or social graphics that want a handmade, slightly rebellious tone. For long-form reading, it’s more effective as a punchy accent than as body text.
The overall tone is gritty yet friendly—like hand-painted signage, zine lettering, or a comic marker headline. Its rough texture reads informal and expressive rather than refined, adding immediacy and attitude to short messages. The warmth of the rounded shapes keeps the distressed effect from feeling harsh or industrial.
The design appears intended to mimic thick, fast brush or marker lettering with a deliberately imperfect print/paint finish. Its goal is impact and personality: bold, tactile shapes with enough irregularity to feel human and spontaneous.
In text settings the dark color and irregular texture create strong visual presence, while the uneven edge detail becomes more prominent at larger sizes. The forms favor simple construction over strict consistency, which enhances the hand-rendered feel but can make longer passages look dense and busy.