Distressed Ilvu 2 is a bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height, monospaced font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, album art, zines, grunge, playful, vintage, handmade, quirky, aged print, handmade feel, poster impact, retro texture, gritty tone, blobby, worn, inked, soft-edged, rugged.
A heavy, monoline slab-serif design with deliberately irregular, blunted contours and uneven terminals. The letterforms keep a consistent cell-to-cell width, but their outlines wobble with lumpy shoulders, pinched joins, and slightly collapsed counters that mimic rough inking or worn letterpress type. Serifs are short and chunky, often asymmetrical, and the overall texture is dark and compact with minimal internal whitespace. Curves are broad and soft rather than sharp, giving the alphabet a stamped, slightly swollen silhouette.
Best suited to display settings where texture and personality are desired—posters, bold headlines, editorial callouts, packaging, and retro-leaning branding. It can also work for short passages when a dense, grungy typographic color is the goal, though the heavy inking and uneven counters can reduce clarity at smaller sizes.
The font reads as gritty and handcrafted, balancing a nostalgic print-shop feel with a quirky, cartoonish warmth. Its roughened edges and inky blobs suggest imperfect reproduction—like an old poster, a rubber stamp, or a photocopied zine—creating an intentionally messy, characterful tone.
The design appears intended to evoke rough printing and handmade signage while maintaining a steady, typewriter-like rhythm and spacing. Its consistent widths and slab structure provide order, while the distressed outlines add attitude and an intentionally imperfect, analog finish.
Caps and lowercase share the same rough texture and weight, and the numerals follow the same rounded, worn construction. The distressed detailing is consistent across glyphs, so text blocks develop a strong overall pattern and texture rather than focusing on fine stroke detail.