Distressed Anda 2 is a bold, very narrow, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, album art, apparel, brushy, handmade, energetic, expressive, urban, handmade impact, textured realism, expressive display, compact emphasis, dry-brush, textured, condensed, slanted, angular.
A condensed, slanted brush-script with strong contrast between thick downstrokes and finer connecting strokes. Letterforms are upright-leaning italic with a tight rhythm, narrow counters, and compact proportions, including a relatively small x-height and prominent ascenders/descenders. Strokes show dry-brush texture and rough edges, with intermittent thinning and ink breakup that create a lively, distressed finish. Curves are slightly angular and the joins feel quick and gestural, producing an informal, hand-rendered consistency across caps, lowercase, and numerals.
This font works best for short display settings where texture and movement are an asset—posters, bold editorial headlines, packaging callouts, album/cover art, and apparel graphics. It can also serve for punchy social media graphics or brand marks that want a brushy, handcrafted edge, especially when set large enough for the distressed details to read cleanly.
The overall tone is bold and energetic, with a streetwise, handmade attitude. The textured brush marks add grit and motion, giving the font a human, improvised feel suited to attention-grabbing statements rather than quiet neutrality.
The design appears intended to mimic fast brush lettering with a dry, worn ink effect while staying compact and impactful. Its condensed, italic posture and textured strokes aim to deliver urgency and personality, balancing legibility with expressive, distressed character.
Caps read like simplified, brush-painted forms rather than formal script capitals, helping maintain speed and clarity at display sizes. Numerals follow the same brush logic and texture, with tall, narrow silhouettes that match the condensed lettering and keep lines feeling tight and dynamic.