Distressed Ihrab 2 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, halloween, poster headlines, book covers, game ui, gothic, occult, vintage, macabre, playful, evoke horror, simulate printwear, add texture, create atmosphere, spiky, ornate, grungy, blotty, irregular.
An upright serif display face with chunky, uneven strokes and pronounced ink-bite textures throughout. The letterforms feel carved and blotted at once: terminals swell into knobby nubs, edges wobble, and many counters show pitted holes and rough interior contours. Proportions are lively and inconsistent in a deliberate way, with slightly varied widths and a bouncy baseline rhythm that reads clearly at display sizes while staying intentionally ragged.
Best suited to short-to-medium display settings such as horror or fantasy titles, Halloween promotions, theatrical posters, album art, and book covers. It can also work for brand marks and packaging where a haunted, antiquarian texture is desired; for longer passages, generous size and spacing help preserve readability.
The overall tone is spooky and storybook-like, mixing gothic ornament with a distressed, printed-on-old-paper feel. It suggests potions, curses, and carnival posters—dramatic rather than refined, with an intentionally unruly charm.
The design appears intended to emulate worn letterpress or ink-stamped typography with gothic overtones, prioritizing atmosphere and texture over smooth precision. Its controlled roughness and ornamental serifs aim to deliver instant thematic impact in headlines and titling.
Serifs and joins frequently form thorny protrusions, giving the texture a bristly silhouette even in dense text. The distressed pattern is consistent across caps, lowercase, and numerals, so paragraphs retain a cohesive “aged ink” color despite the irregular outlines.