Distressed Alzu 2 is a bold, narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, headlines, logos, apparel, rugged, energetic, handmade, vintage, casual, handmade feel, vintage texture, expressive display, brush script, brushy, textured, slanted, looping, high-contrast.
A slanted, brush-script style with connected, calligraphic letterforms and visibly textured strokes. Shapes are compact and slightly condensed, with rounded counters, generous entry/exit strokes, and frequent loops in capitals and select lowercase letters. Stroke edges appear rough and broken, suggesting dry-brush or worn printing, while maintaining a consistent rhythmic baseline and smooth cursive flow. Numerals follow the same angled, handwritten construction with tapered terminals and occasional flourish.
Best suited for display settings such as posters, product packaging, logos, and apparel graphics where the textured brush character can be featured at larger sizes. It also works well for short headers, pull quotes, and label-style copy where an energetic, handmade feel is desired.
The overall tone feels lively and informal, with a gritty, lived-in finish that reads as handmade rather than polished. Its expressive brush movement and worn texture evoke vintage signage and casual craft lettering, adding personality and motion to short phrases.
The design appears intended to emulate bold brush lettering with a worn, print-like texture, combining quick cursive motion with a deliberately rough surface. It prioritizes expressive impact and tactile character over neutral readability, aiming to add grit and authenticity to display typography.
Capitals are showy and highly gestural, while lowercase maintains a fast, continuous script with relatively compact internal space, which can build dense texture in longer lines. The distressed detailing is present throughout the strokes, so the face benefits from adequate size and contrast to keep forms from visually filling in.