Distressed Efral 2 is a bold, wide, very high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, album covers, event posters, game branding, book covers, gothic, occult, dramatic, antique, macabre, dark tone, aged effect, blackletter mood, headline impact, rugged texture, blackletter, chiselled, spiky, ornate, angular.
A high-contrast blackletter-inspired display face with sharp, angular construction and flared, wedge-like terminals. Strokes alternate between heavy, inked masses and thin hairline cuts, creating a carved, chiseled rhythm. Edges are irregular and slightly torn, with small nicks, notches, and uneven interiors that read like worn printing or distressed engraving. Counters are generally compact and dark, and the overall texture is dense and energetic, with a lively, hand-wrought consistency across capitals, lowercase, and numerals.
Best suited for short display settings where texture and mood matter more than neutrality—titles, logos, posters, packaging, and promotional graphics. It performs especially well in horror, fantasy, metal/underground music, Halloween, and gothic-themed branding, where its distressed blackletter texture can be featured at larger sizes.
The font projects a dark, theatrical tone—gothic and ceremonial, with a hint of menace. Its distressed detailing and spiky silhouettes evoke medieval manuscripts, horror titling, and occult ephemera, giving text an aged, enchanted, and aggressive voice.
The design appears intended to deliver an old-world blackletter voice with a deliberately weathered surface, combining chiseled high-contrast forms with distressed cuts for a gritty, theatrical presence in headlines and branding.
Uppercase letters carry the strongest blackletter cues and create a heavy, poster-like color on the page, while the lowercase remains jagged and expressive rather than strictly calligraphic. Numerals follow the same carved/engraved logic, with pronounced contrast and decorative cuts that keep them visually consistent in display settings.