Distressed Obmi 2 is a very light, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, game ui, album art, book covers, posters, grunge, antique, eerie, handmade, weathered, aged print, atmosphere, analog texture, unease, roughness, ragged, blotchy, textured, uneven, inked.
A textured, distressed serif with visibly eroded contours and intermittent stroke breaks that mimic worn ink or rough printing. Letterforms are narrow-to-moderate in proportion with sharp, wedge-like terminals and irregular edge noise that varies from glyph to glyph. Contrast reads as high because thin connections and counters are often eaten away while thicker verticals and bowls remain, producing a mottled rhythm across words. Spacing and widths feel uneven in a deliberate, handmade way, and the overall texture becomes a prominent part of the lettershape rather than a separate effect.
Best suited for display contexts where texture is an asset: horror or thriller titling, game branding and UI headings, album/film graphics, and poster work. It can also work for short pull quotes or section heads in themed editorial layouts, especially when printed large enough for the distress details to read clearly.
The font communicates a weathered, antiquarian mood—part old-paper, part rough stamp—suggesting age, mystery, and grit. Its broken edges and blotchy ink texture create an unsettling, tactile tone that can feel eerie or ritualistic depending on context.
The design appears intended to simulate aged, imperfect letterpress or inked serif forms that have been degraded by wear, absorption, or repeated reproduction. It prioritizes atmosphere and tactile texture over clean typographic regularity, aiming for a historically flavored, distressed voice.
In text settings the distressed pattern is consistent enough to read as a coherent style, but the fragmentation and speckling add significant visual noise, especially in smaller sizes. Round letters like O/C/G and numerals show the strongest erosion along curves, while stems retain darker, more solid cores, emphasizing a worn-print character.