Distressed Kehi 3 is a very bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font visually similar to 'Vilanders' by Edignwn Type and 'Knicknack' by Great Scott (names referenced only for comparison).
Keywords: posters, packaging, stickers, headlines, album art, grunge, playful, rugged, comic, handmade, add texture, look handmade, grab attention, create grit, blobby, roughened, inked, soft-edged, chunky.
A heavy, chunky sans with rounded construction and highly irregular, blobby contours that mimic rough ink spread or textured stamping. Strokes maintain a mostly even thickness, while the outer edges wobble with small scallops and nicks that create a consistently distressed silhouette. Counters are compact and sometimes partly occluded by the texture, giving letters a dense, inked-in feel. Proportions are sturdy with a tall x-height, short extenders, and slightly uneven widths that add an organic rhythm in text.
Best suited for short, bold settings where texture is a feature: posters, event flyers, album or game art, packaging, stickers, and splashy headline treatments. It can also work for branded accent text on social graphics when a rough, handmade tone is desired; for dense body copy, the dark texture may reduce clarity at smaller sizes.
The texture and soft, lumpy outlines give the font a scrappy, DIY energy—part grunge, part cartoon—reading as casual, noisy, and attention-seeking. It feels tactile and imperfect, like letters cut from sponge or printed on rough paper, which pushes it toward playful menace and gritty fun rather than refinement.
The design appears intended to deliver a strong display voice with a deliberately imperfect, distressed finish, trading crisp typographic precision for tactile impact. Its tall lowercase and chunky forms aim for quick recognition, while the irregular edges add personality and a gritty, themed atmosphere.
In longer lines the distressed edge treatment becomes the dominant visual feature, producing a dark, mottled color on the page. Simpler shapes (like I, L, T) rely heavily on the edge texture for character, while round letters (O, Q, G) emphasize the blobby perimeter and tight inner space.