Distressed Heve 2 is a light, narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, book covers, invitations, branding, handmade, weathered, whimsical, folksy, vintage, handwritten feel, aged texture, expressive display, personal tone, scratchy, inky, wiry, calligraphic, bouncy.
A slanted, handwritten script with wiry strokes and gently uneven outlines that suggest a dry-ink or lightly distressed mark. Letterforms are narrow with variable widths and a lively, bouncy baseline rhythm. Strokes show modest thick–thin modulation and tapered terminals, with occasional kinks and roughened edges that keep the texture consistently organic across caps, lowercase, and numerals. Spacing feels loose and natural rather than mechanically uniform, enhancing the hand-drawn impression in both the grid and paragraph samples.
Well-suited to short-to-medium passages where a handmade, textured voice is desirable—such as posters, labels, café or craft packaging, book covers, and event invitations. It performs especially well in headlines, pull quotes, and display copy where its irregular stroke texture and lively rhythm can be appreciated without requiring high-speed readability at very small sizes.
The overall tone is informal and characterful, balancing a vintage note with playful, storybook energy. Its textured stroke edges read as tactile and human, giving text a personal, slightly timeworn voice rather than a polished or corporate one.
The design appears intended to mimic quick, natural pen lettering with a controlled amount of roughness, capturing the charm of imperfect ink edges while remaining coherent and usable for display typography.
Uppercase forms lean toward simplified, pen-drawn shapes, while the lowercase shows more looped and cursive behavior, creating a pleasant contrast for mixed-case setting. Numerals follow the same handwritten logic, with soft curves and slight irregularity that keeps them visually consistent with the letters.