Distressed Pubot 2 is a bold, narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, headlines, packaging, merch, grunge, handmade, punk, raw, retro, add texture, create grit, evoke printwear, diy attitude, rough, inky, blotchy, textured, irregular.
A heavy, ink-saturated display face with visibly rough, eroded outlines and occasional interior nicks that suggest worn printing or a distressed marker/brush. Strokes are compact and chunky, with uneven terminals and softly rounded corners that wobble slightly from letter to letter. Counters tend to be small and irregular, and the overall rhythm feels intentionally imperfect, with subtle variations in width and silhouette that keep the texture lively in both caps and lowercase.
Works best for short headlines and high-impact display settings such as posters, gig flyers, album/cover art, streetwear graphics, and packaging that benefits from a rough printed texture. It can also suit attention-grabbing section headers in editorial layouts when paired with a cleaner text face for body copy.
The tone is gritty and tactile, leaning toward rebellious, DIY energy rather than polished refinement. Its blotchy texture and uneven edges evoke photocopied flyers, stamped packaging, or weathered signage, giving text a rugged, human-made feel.
The design appears aimed at delivering an assertive, hand-printed look with deliberate wear and ink spread, prioritizing character and atmosphere over smooth geometry. It’s built to communicate immediacy and grit, as if pulled from a well-used stamp, screen, or distressed brush lettering.
The distressing is strong enough to become part of the letterforms, so the face reads best when the texture can be seen rather than reduced to a solid mass. Numerals and punctuation share the same worn, inky character, keeping a consistent roughness across mixed content.