Distressed Bily 2 is a bold, very narrow, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, apparel, packaging, headlines, handmade, gritty, energetic, dramatic, vintage, brush lettering, aged print, rugged display, high impact, brushy, textured, jagged, slanted, expressive.
A slanted, brush-script style with compressed proportions and pronounced thick–thin modulation. Strokes show dry-brush texture and irregular, chipped edges, creating broken counters and uneven ink coverage that reads as intentionally rough. Letterforms are loosely connected in feel but mostly separate as a display script, with sharp entry/exit terminals, occasional hooked ends, and a lively, slightly bouncing baseline rhythm. Numerals follow the same gestural construction, with textured bowls and tapered strokes that keep the set visually consistent.
Best suited to bold, attention-grabbing display work such as posters, event flyers, album covers, apparel graphics, and punchy packaging labels. It performs well when you want hand-made energy and a distressed imprint, especially at medium-to-large sizes where the texture becomes a feature rather than noise.
The overall tone is raw and expressive, combining the speed of hand lettering with a worn, printed patina. It suggests urgency and attitude—more street-poster and grindhouse than polished calligraphy—while still retaining a legible, classic italic script flavor.
The design appears intended to mimic fast brush lettering captured through imperfect reproduction—like worn ink, rough screen print, or distressed signage—delivering a dramatic, energetic script voice for themed display typography.
Texture density varies within strokes, so dark areas can clump in small sizes while larger sizes reveal the dry-brush grain and edge chatter. The condensed, forward-leaning forms create strong directional movement, and the high-contrast joins add drama in headline settings.