Distressed Hogim 2 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: book covers, posters, game titles, labels, themed packaging, rustic, spooky, storybook, handmade, antique, vintage print, handcrafted feel, themed atmosphere, aged texture, rough, inked, worn, irregular, expressive.
A rough-edged, calligraphic serif with an italicized forward slant and visibly irregular outlines. Strokes show a brushy, ink-on-paper character: terminals flick and taper, joins are slightly lumpy, and counters can look uneven, as if printed from a worn plate. Proportions vary from glyph to glyph, creating a variable, handcrafted rhythm; the capitals feel decorative and slightly quirky, while the lowercase keeps a readable, oldstyle structure with lively ascenders and descenders.
Best suited to display roles where character is more important than pristine clarity—titles, headers, poster lines, packaging, and themed branding. It can work for short passages in larger sizes when a storybook or vintage-print mood is desired, but the distressed texture will be most effective when given enough size and contrast to read cleanly.
The overall tone is antique and theatrical, evoking aged print, folk tales, and Halloween-adjacent atmosphere. Its imperfect texture and expressive slant add a sense of motion and mischief, making it feel more narrative than neutral.
The design appears intended to simulate expressive hand-rendered lettering and aged printing, combining an italic calligraphic skeleton with deliberately worn, imperfect contours. It prioritizes atmosphere and period flavor over strict regularity.
Texture is the main personality driver: edges appear chipped and inked-in, and spacing feels intentionally organic rather than mechanically even. The numerals follow the same worn, brushy logic, keeping a cohesive display color across mixed-case settings.