Distressed Lyzi 2 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, album covers, packaging, badges, grungy, vintage, rugged, raw, noisy, add texture, evoke age, analog print, rough impact, slab serif, worn, inked, eroded, blotchy.
A heavy slab-serif letterform with rounded, softened terminals and visibly eroded contours. Strokes are thick and steady in structure, but the edges break up into irregular nicks, speckling, and blot-like cavities that mimic worn printing or degraded ink. Counters stay mostly open and readable, while the distressing introduces small gaps and texture that vary from glyph to glyph. Overall spacing is moderately tight with a typewriter-like rhythm, and the numerals match the same sturdy, ink-worn construction.
Best suited for display settings where texture is an asset: posters, branding marks, product labels, album art, and short headline copy. It can also work for subheads or pull quotes when set at comfortable sizes, but the distressed detail may soften at very small text sizes or on low-resolution output.
The font conveys a rough, analog personality—like aged posters, stamped labels, or distressed signage. Its texture reads as tactile and imperfect, giving copy an archival, gritty tone that feels handmade or mechanically printed under less-than-perfect conditions.
The design appears intended to merge a classic slab-serif, typewriter-adjacent foundation with deliberate surface wear, producing a readable display face that instantly signals age, grit, and printed-material authenticity.
The distress is concentrated along outer contours and at joins, creating a consistent “chewed” silhouette while preserving the underlying slab-serif skeleton. Uppercase forms feel especially blocky and assertive, while lowercase retains a compact, utilitarian cadence.