Distressed Wohe 2 is a bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, headlines, book covers, logos, typewriter, rugged, vintage, noisy, industrial, aged print, mechanical voice, grit texture, retro utility, slab serif, monospace feel, ink spread, rough edges, worn print.
A heavy slab-serif design with compact, blocky letterforms and strongly bracketed, rectangular serifs. Strokes show noticeable roughness and uneven contours, suggesting worn metal type or degraded printing, with slight ink spread and broken edges throughout. Counters are relatively small and apertures tend to be tight, producing a dense, dark texture in text. The overall rhythm reads steady and mechanical, with a typewriter-like regularity despite the distressed perimeter treatment.
Well-suited for display settings where texture is part of the message: posters, cover titling, labels, and packaging that want a vintage-industrial or typewritten impression. It can also work for short bursts of copy (pull quotes, captions, UI badges) when a rugged, printed-on-paper character is desired, though the distressed edges will dominate at smaller sizes.
The font conveys an analog, utilitarian tone—evoking office machinery, stamped paperwork, and aged ephemera. Its worn texture adds grit and urgency, leaning toward archival, documentary, and workshop aesthetics rather than polished modernity.
The design appears intended to merge a classic slab/typewriter structure with deliberate print wear, delivering a dependable, mechanical skeleton softened by imperfect, timeworn edges for instant atmosphere.
In the sample text the distressing is consistent across sizes, creating a textured gray value that becomes more pronounced in longer passages. The numerals and capitals maintain the same sturdy, slabbed construction, reinforcing a pragmatic, equipment-label feel.