Distressed Fuboz 2 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, book covers, packaging, branding, event flyers, vintage, spooky, western, hand-printed, quirky, add texture, evoke age, create drama, headline impact, inked, worn, textured, serifed, display.
A serifed display face with chiseled, irregular outlines and heavy interior scarring that reads like distressed ink or worn woodcut printing. Strokes stay broadly consistent in weight while the contours wobble and notch, creating animated counters and uneven terminals. Capitals feel tall and slightly condensed with sharp wedge-like serifs, while the lowercase is smaller with a compact x-height and simple, sturdy forms. Overall spacing appears moderately open, with a lively, uneven rhythm driven by the texture rather than by slant or extreme contrast.
Best suited to short-to-medium display settings such as posters, titles, labels, and packaging where the distressed texture can read clearly. It can add period flavor to branding and event materials, especially for themes like vintage, frontier, or spooky entertainment. For long body copy, the rough interiors may reduce clarity, so it’s more effective as a headline or accent face.
The texture and roughened edges evoke aged printing, old posters, and props with a purposely weathered finish. It carries a theatrical, slightly ominous tone—part vintage showbill, part haunted handbill—while still remaining legible at headline sizes. The overall feel is bold and characterful rather than refined.
The design appears intended to deliver a classic serif silhouette while injecting a deliberately worn, hand-printed texture for instant atmosphere. It prioritizes character and surface detail over typographic neutrality, aiming to make straightforward text feel like it came from an aged press or distressed sign.
Distress is applied inconsistently enough to keep repeated letters from feeling sterile, yet the underlying skeleton remains coherent across the set. The numerals match the same worn, inked treatment and sit confidently for signage-style use. At smaller sizes the interior scuffs can start to fill in visually, so the face benefits from generous size and contrast against the background.