Distressed Fumud 2 is a light, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, game ui, poster headlines, album art, book covers, spooky, handmade, grunge, ritual, storybook, evoke dread, hand-ink feel, add texture, thematic display, punk energy, brushy, ragged, scratchy, uneven, expressive.
This typeface uses a rough, brush-and-ink construction with jagged terminals, frayed edges, and occasional hollowed or streaked interior contours that suggest dry-brush drag. Strokes show abrupt thick-to-thin shifts and irregular joins, producing a lively, inconsistent rhythm across the alphabet. Round forms (like O, Q, and numerals such as 6/8/9) appear as imperfect rings with visible internal swirl marks, while verticals and diagonals often taper to sharp, splintered points. Spacing and glyph widths vary noticeably, reinforcing an organic, hand-rendered texture rather than a mechanically uniform serif or sans model.
Best suited to short-display settings where texture is a feature: horror or fantasy titles, game branding and UI accents, posters, and editorial or packaging moments that need a distressed, hand-inked voice. It can work for brief phrases or pull quotes, but the rough contours and variable rhythm are likely to feel busy at small sizes or in dense paragraphs.
The overall tone feels occult and theatrical, with a distressed, ink-scratched energy that reads as eerie and dramatic. Its uneven outlines and blade-like terminals create tension and motion, lending a handmade, slightly menacing character suited to dark or fantastical themes.
The design appears intended to mimic expressive, weathered brush lettering—combining sharp, ritual-like shapes with dry-brush artifacts to create a dramatic, thematic display face. Its deliberate irregularity prioritizes atmosphere and texture over typographic neutrality.
Uppercase letters tend to be more angular and emblematic, while lowercase shows more calligraphic movement and quirky shapes, increasing the handmade feel in running text. Numerals carry the same distressed treatment, with some figures leaning toward stylized, almost carved silhouettes.