Distressed Lyki 2 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album covers, film titles, headlines, packaging, grunge, pulp, rough, dramatic, handmade, add texture, create tension, vintage grit, handmade feel, ragged, torn-edge, inked, jagged, brushy.
A slanted, heavy display face with aggressively irregular outlines and a dry, worn-looking texture. Strokes are chunky but uneven, with jagged edges, occasional nicks, and blot-like terminals that mimic rough brushwork or degraded printing. The rhythm is lively and unstable: counters vary in size and cleanliness, curves look slightly gnawed, and widths fluctuate from glyph to glyph, giving the alphabet an animated, handmade presence. Numerals follow the same distressed construction, with simplified shapes and rugged silhouettes that read best at larger sizes.
Best suited to short, high-impact typography such as posters, title cards, album/EP covers, event promotions, and editorial headlines where the distressed texture can be a feature. It can also work for thematic packaging or merch graphics that benefit from a rough, printed-on-paper feel, rather than for long-form reading.
The overall tone is gritty and expressive, evoking scraped ink, weathered signage, and pulpy horror or noir titling. Its energetic slant and torn contours create a sense of urgency and menace, while the handmade irregularity adds a raw, underground attitude.
The design appears intended to deliver an intentionally worn, hand-inked look—like lettering pulled from a rough print process or brush-painted forms that have been abraded. Its goal is to inject texture and attitude into display type, prioritizing character and atmosphere over smooth precision.
In text settings the texture becomes a dominant feature, creating strong word-shapes but reducing fine-detail clarity in longer passages. The jagged edges and variable counters can cause dark spots in dense lines, so generous tracking and leading help preserve readability.