Distressed Esgu 2 is a regular weight, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, stickers, merch, grunge, handmade, playful, rustic, retro, worn print, hand ink, diy character, vintage feel, rough, blotchy, speckled, inked, organic.
A casual, monoline-ish sans with rounded terminals and gently irregular, hand-drawn construction. Strokes show noticeable wobble and uneven pressure, with pitted, speckled counters and edge erosion that reads like worn ink or distressed printing. Letterforms stay largely simple and open, with soft curves, straightforward bowls, and a friendly rhythm; spacing and widths vary slightly from glyph to glyph, reinforcing an informal, handmade texture.
Best suited to display settings where the textured surface can be appreciated—posters, cover art, product packaging, stickers, and merchandise graphics. It can also work for short bursts of text in branding systems that want an intentionally imperfect, analog feel, but the heavy distressing is most effective when not set too small.
The overall tone is crafty and imperfect in a deliberate way—more thrift-store poster and DIY label than polished branding. Its mottled texture adds a gritty, lived-in personality while the rounded shapes keep it approachable and lighthearted.
Likely designed to emulate hand-inked lettering and worn print reproduction, combining simple, friendly sans forms with consistent surface damage to create instant character. The goal appears to be an easygoing display face that adds grit and warmth without becoming hard-edged or aggressive.
The distressing appears consistently across uppercase, lowercase, and numerals, creating a unified ‘printed-worn’ surface rather than random damage. The texture becomes more pronounced at larger sizes, where the interior speckling and edge chipping are most visible.