Distressed Daty 2 is a regular weight, very narrow, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, branding, packaging, social media, gritty, energetic, handmade, rebellious, streetwise, expressiveness, handwritten feel, analog grit, display impact, brush script, dry brush, textured, slanted, compressed.
A slanted brush-script display face with compressed proportions and lively, gestural construction. Strokes show pronounced modulation and a dry-brush texture, with frayed edges, occasional breaks, and ink-like pooling that create a distressed rhythm. Letterforms lean forward with a quick, handwritten cadence, mixing sharper terminals and tapered entries with heavier downstrokes. Spacing feels compact and linear, supporting punchy word shapes rather than even, bookish texture.
Best suited to short, high-impact text such as posters, cover art, event flyers, and branded headlines where texture and motion are desirable. It can also work for packaging callouts and social graphics, especially when paired with a cleaner sans or serif for supporting copy.
The overall tone is bold and raw, evoking marker-and-ink signage, gig posters, and fast handwritten headlines. Its roughened texture adds urgency and attitude, reading as expressive and slightly aggressive rather than polished or formal.
The design appears intended to capture the immediacy of a fast brush stroke while preserving legibility at display sizes. Distressing and contrast are used to add character and analog grit, aiming for expressive impact over typographic neutrality.
Uppercase forms are stylized and brushy with simplified structure, while lowercase keeps a brisk, note-like flow with minimal joining. Numerals follow the same painted, irregular logic, maintaining the distressed texture and forward slant for consistent set-wide character.