Distressed Ekby 3 is a very bold, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, stickers, event promos, playful, gritty, handmade, casual, quirky, hand-printed feel, diy texture, bold impact, playful display, roughened, blotchy, textured, cartoony, chunky.
A chunky, heavy display face with simplified, mostly geometric letterforms and softly rounded corners. Strokes are thick and uneven, with rough, worn-looking edges and scattered interior scuffs that mimic ink drag or distressed printing. Counters are generally open and circular, but vary in shape and cleanliness across the set, contributing to an intentionally imperfect rhythm. Overall spacing and glyph widths fluctuate slightly, reinforcing a hand-made, stamp-like feel in both caps and lowercase.
Best suited to short, high-impact text such as posters, headlines, packaging callouts, stickers, and event promotions where the texture can be appreciated. It also works well for playful merchandising and youth-oriented branding, but may feel busy at very small sizes or in long passages due to the built-in wear and uneven rhythm.
The texture and irregularity give it a lively, informal voice—friendly and comic on the surface, with a gritty, lo‑fi edge underneath. It suggests handmade signage, screen-printed posters, or playful branding that wants to feel tactile and unpolished rather than precise.
The design appears intended to deliver maximum presence with a deliberately rough, hand-printed look—combining friendly, rounded forms with distressed texture to evoke DIY production and analog printing.
The distressing is baked into the silhouettes as well as the interiors, so the font reads like solid black shapes that have been abraded or over-inked. The numeral set follows the same rounded, weighty construction, staying consistent with the bold, poster-forward character.