Distressed Pulor 2 is a bold, normal width, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, album art, headlines, stickers, handmade, rugged, playful, casual, grunge, handmade impact, rough print, casual display, expressive tone, brushy, textured, blotchy, organic, lively.
A heavy, brush-drawn script-like face with a consistent forward slant and visibly variable stroke width. Letterforms are built from rounded, slightly compressed shapes with soft terminals and a bouncy baseline, while counters stay fairly open despite the weight. Edges show deliberate roughness—inky wobble, speckling, and worn-in patches—creating an irregular print texture across stems, bowls, and joins. Spacing is moderately loose and the overall rhythm feels hand-set rather than mechanically uniform.
Best suited for display contexts where texture is an asset: posters, packaging, album art, event promos, and headline treatments. It works well for short bursts of copy—titles, pull quotes, and labels—especially when you want a handmade, slightly weathered feel rather than clean readability at small sizes.
The texture and slanted, marker-like construction give a casual, energetic tone that reads as handmade and imperfect in an intentional way. It evokes DIY signage and rough-printed ephemera—friendly and approachable, with a gritty edge that keeps it from feeling polished or corporate.
The design appears intended to capture the look of bold brush lettering that has been printed or stamped with imperfect ink coverage. Its combination of slant, pressure-driven strokes, and distressed surface aims to deliver an expressive, human-made voice that feels lively and rough-around-the-edges.
The numerals and caps match the same brushy construction, with rounded forms and occasional thickened spots that mimic pressure changes. At text sizes the distressing remains prominent, so the font’s character comes through strongly even in short phrases, while longer paragraphs may feel intentionally noisy and expressive.