Distressed Irmey 2 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, book covers, themed branding, quirky, antique, storybook, rustic, mischievous, evoke vintage, add texture, create character, themed display, wobbly, inked, blunted, soft serif, hand-cut.
A decorative serif with softly bracketed, flared terminals and intentionally uneven contours. Strokes are moderately contrasty but irregular in thickness, with blunted corners and gently wavy edges that suggest imperfect inking or worn printing. Forms lean toward oldstyle proportions with rounded bowls, lively curvature, and a slightly unstable baseline rhythm; spacing and widths vary noticeably from glyph to glyph. Numerals and lowercase follow the same roughened, inked-in feel, keeping counters open enough for display use while preserving a handcrafted texture.
Best suited to display settings where texture and personality are assets—headlines, posters, book covers, game or event titling, packaging, and themed branding. It can also work for short bursts of text in pull quotes or labels, but the irregular edge treatment is likely to feel busy at small sizes or in long passages.
The overall tone is whimsical and antique, combining a vintage bookish flavor with a slightly ragged, mischievous edge. It feels theatrical and folkloric rather than formal, evoking handmade signage or aged ephemera.
Likely designed to deliver an old-world, handmade serif voice with a controlled roughness—combining classic letterform cues with distressed, print-worn irregularities to create instant atmosphere and narrative character.
Capitals are bold and characterful with pronounced terminal flare, while lowercase maintains a compact, playful rhythm and occasional quirky details (like curled terminals and irregular joins). The texture is consistent across the set, so the “distress” reads as a deliberate stylistic treatment rather than random noise.