Distressed Ebta 2 is a bold, narrow, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, branding, packaging, social, handmade, rugged, energetic, casual, expressive, handmade feel, add texture, create impact, casual voice, brushy, textured, dry brush, angular, compact.
A slanted, brush-lettered style with compact proportions and assertive, uneven strokes. Letterforms show a dry-brush texture with intermittent fill, giving counters and curves a slightly mottled, worn-in look. Stems and diagonals are irregular in width and terminal shape, producing a lively rhythm and a handcrafted baseline flow while maintaining clear, readable silhouettes in both cases. Numerals match the same painted texture and slightly angular construction.
Well suited to short, high-impact settings such as posters, event promotion, album or merch graphics, and brand marks that benefit from a handmade imprint. It also works for packaging callouts, quotes, and social graphics where texture and energy are more important than clean, small-size rendering.
The overall tone feels gritty and spontaneous, like quick marker or paint lettering used for bold statements. Its roughened texture and forward lean suggest motion and attitude, balancing casual friendliness with a tough, street-sign or gig-poster edge.
Likely drawn to emulate fast, confident brush lettering with a deliberately rough print texture, aiming for an authentic, handmade look that reads immediately and adds character without becoming illegible.
Uppercase forms read as assertive and poster-ready, while the lowercase keeps a looser, handwritten cadence with simpler joins and open shapes. The texture is consistent across the set, so it retains a coherent “ink-on-paper” feel even in longer lines of text, though the distressed interior detail becomes more prominent at larger sizes.