Distressed Fisi 2 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, headlines, event promos, horror titles, spooky, handcrafted, rugged, folkloric, gritty, add texture, create tension, evoke vintage print, themed display, handmade feel, jagged, roughened, inked, uneven, spurred.
A rough-edged display face with jagged terminals and broken-looking contours that mimic worn ink or torn paper. Strokes are mostly monoline to mildly modulated, with frequent small nicks, spikes, and irregular overshoots that create a lively, unstable outline. Letterforms keep a generally upright stance and compact proportions, while widths vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, enhancing the handmade rhythm. Counters are often slightly pinched or asymmetrical, and curves have a chiseled, notched quality rather than smooth arcs.
Best suited to short-form display settings such as posters, title cards, album or podcast artwork, Halloween/event promotions, and themed packaging where texture and mood are priorities. It can also work for logos or wordmarks that benefit from a handcrafted, distressed personality, but is less appropriate for long body text or small UI labeling where the rough edges may compromise legibility.
The overall tone reads eerie and storybook-dark, combining a playful horror energy with a handmade, slightly chaotic texture. It feels more theatrical than aggressive, evoking haunted-house signage, witchy ephemera, and distressed print artifacts.
The design appears intended to deliver a dramatic, themed display voice by pairing relatively traditional letter skeletons with deliberately distressed outlines. The consistent roughening and spurred terminals suggest an aim to simulate aged printing or torn inked strokes while keeping the alphabet readable and punchy at headline sizes.
In the samples, the distressed detailing is consistent across caps, lowercase, and numerals, creating a cohesive texture line-to-line. The roughness becomes more prominent at larger sizes, where the spurs and breaks read as intentional character rather than noise; at smaller sizes those details can visually fill in and reduce clarity.