Distressed Ekme 3 is a very bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, stickers, apparel, playful, handmade, grungy, quirky, casual, handmade feel, casual branding, rough print, playful display, rounded, inky, blobby, textured, chunky.
A chunky, rounded, hand-drawn sans with irregular, brushy outlines and subtly uneven stroke boundaries. The letterforms are built from simplified geometric shapes, but the edges wobble and the joins feel slightly swollen, creating a blobby silhouette. Counters are generally open and round, with occasional interior speckling/texture that reads like ink drag or rough fill. Spacing and sidebearings vary noticeably across glyphs, contributing to an organic rhythm in words and lines.
Best suited to display applications where its thick, textured shapes can read clearly and contribute personality—posters, headlines, product packaging, sticker designs, and casual branding. It also works well for short bursts of copy such as captions, labels, or social graphics, where the handmade texture can be a feature rather than a distraction.
The font communicates a playful, scrappy energy—like marker lettering or quickly painted signage that’s been roughed up in printing. Its imperfect contours and textured fill add an easygoing, DIY attitude that feels friendly rather than aggressive. Overall it leans whimsical and informal, with a lightly worn, inky character.
The design appears intended to deliver an approachable, hand-crafted look with deliberate roughness—capturing the feel of quick marker or brush lettering and imperfect ink coverage. The simplified construction keeps forms recognizable while the irregular texture injects character and an intentionally unpolished finish.
The texture appears both along edges and within strokes, which can add character at display sizes but may reduce clarity in dense settings or very small type. Numerals match the same rounded, hand-rendered construction, keeping a consistent tone across alphanumerics.