Distressed Ebja 4 is a bold, wide, high contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, stickers, headlines, social graphics, grunge, playful, handmade, punchy, casual, handmade feel, rough print, expressive display, casual branding, brushy, blotchy, roughened, rounded, bouncy.
A chunky, hand-drawn display face with rounded, simplified letterforms and visibly uneven stroke edges. The strokes show a wet-ink/brush-marker feel: heavy terminals, occasional blobs, and speckled voids that read like worn printing or ink texture. Counters are generally open and circular, with soft corners and a slightly right-leaning, informal rhythm. Width and character shapes vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, reinforcing a spontaneous, handmade construction.
Best suited to short, high-impact text such as posters, event headers, packaging callouts, and social media graphics where the rough texture can read clearly. It works well for playful brands, DIY crafts, street-market aesthetics, or anything aiming for a handmade, stamped, or marker-lettered look.
The overall tone is energetic and approachable, mixing a friendly, cartoon-like softness with a gritty, distressed surface. It feels like signage made with a thick marker or paint, giving text a lively, imperfect charm that suggests movement and personality rather than precision.
The design appears intended to deliver bold readability with a deliberately imperfect, ink-worn texture—capturing the character of hand lettering and distressed print in a cohesive, display-oriented alphabet.
Texture is consistent across the set, with small nicks and flecks that become more apparent at larger sizes. The alphabet maintains clear recognition despite the rough edges, but the heaviest distressing can visually fill in smaller counters in dense settings.