Distressed Lyhi 1 is a very bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, album art, packaging, event flyers, grunge, handmade, comic, retro, rowdy, textured impact, diy feel, playful grit, themed display, rough, ragged, blobby, inky, chunky.
A chunky, ink-heavy display face with irregular, torn-looking contours and uneven stroke edges that mimic rough brush or worn print. The letterforms are simplified and compact, with rounded masses, occasional pinched joins, and visibly inconsistent silhouette widths from glyph to glyph. Counters tend to be small and sometimes partially closed, while terminals are blunt and broken, producing a rugged, stamped-on texture. Numerals share the same lumpy, distressed construction and read as bold, blocky figures with organic asymmetry.
Best suited to display settings where texture and impact matter more than fine detail—posters, headlines, merch graphics, album/cover art, and bold packaging callouts. It also works well for themed titles and short bursts of copy that need a gritty, hand-rendered voice.
The overall tone is noisy and energetic, with a mischievous, slightly chaotic feel. Its rough texture reads as hand-made and imperfect in an intentional way, suggesting zines, lo-fi posters, and playful horror or Halloween-adjacent styling.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum impact with a deliberately imperfect, distressed finish—combining bold, friendly shapes with roughened edges to evoke DIY printing, brushy marker lettering, or aged signage.
At larger sizes the distressed perimeter becomes a defining feature, creating strong graphic presence and a tactile, ink-on-paper impression. In longer text the heavy weight and rough edges can crowd interior spaces, so it benefits from generous tracking and simpler layouts when used beyond short phrases.