Distressed Kyro 2 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, title cards, game ui, album covers, book covers, medieval, occult, rugged, hand-hewn, dramatic, aged texture, fantasy tone, handmade feel, dramatic display, historic flavor, chiseled, jagged, angular, textured, uneven.
A jagged, hand-hewn display face with sharply notched strokes and irregular outer contours that mimic chipped carving or rough brushwork. Forms are predominantly angular with faceted joins and wedge-like terminals, creating a broken-edge silhouette across both uppercase and lowercase. Stroke thickness varies subtly within letters due to the roughened outlines, while counters stay fairly open for a dense, dark overall color. Spacing and character widths feel uneven by design, reinforcing a raw, handmade rhythm in words and lines.
Best suited for short, high-impact text such as posters, chapter titles, packaging accents, or on-screen title cards where the rough texture can read clearly. It also fits fantasy and horror branding, tabletop and video game UI headings, and album or event artwork that benefits from a gritty, handcrafted feel. For longer passages, it works most effectively as a display layer (headlines, pull quotes) paired with a simpler body font.
The font projects a medieval and ritualistic tone—dark, gritty, and deliberately imperfect. Its chiseled texture and sharp angles evoke fantasy, dungeon-crawl ephemera, and ominous storytelling, reading as intense and theatrical rather than refined or modern.
The design appears intended to simulate hand-cut or weathered lettering—part blackletter-adjacent in mood but built from simplified, angular forms with distressed edges. It prioritizes atmosphere and texture over precision, aiming for a bold, antiquated presence that feels carved, inked, and worn.
Uppercase dominates with strong, emblem-like shapes (notably the diamond-like ‘O’), while the lowercase maintains the same distressed construction with slightly simpler silhouettes. Numerals carry the same rough-cut treatment and remain legible at display sizes, though the textured edges can visually fill in at smaller sizes. The overall impression is consistent across the set, with intentional wobble and abrasion rather than random noise.