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College Distressed + Lemon Milk Pro FTR
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Distressed varsity block capitals with a speckled, chipped edge
College Distressed
College Distressed is a varsity block capital alphabet in which the slabs stay thick and the contour chips into speckles, so a team name reads as a stencil sprayed on a locker room wall.
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Cutting, print & workflow scorecard.
Fine grain and micro-texture excel in 300 DPI print, sublimation, and screen print rather than small vinyl weeding.
Plotter & output verdictPrint, DTF & Sublimation First
Recommended minimum scalePrint any scale · Vinyl 2.2 in+
Character set & structureUppercase, Lowercase & Numerals
OpenType & PUA accessStandard Latin, Figures & Punctuation
Best surfaces & mediaHTV Apparel · Team Jerseys · Heavyweight Merch
Compatible design toolsIllustrator · Affinity · Canva Pro · Cricut & Silhouette
Visual anatomy & craft review
Letterform structure
of College Distressed.
The C cuts a thick crescent, the O closes a rectangular bowl, the L turns a slab corner, the E stacks three heavy arms and the G carries a low spur, all at a block weight with square slabs and a heavily broken contour. The distress is the character: the chips are drawn into the outline, so the face carries the worn look without a texture filter, which is why the sample sets two words over a dragged brush. Because the shapes are solid, the face holds from 24 pt and prints in one ink on a light ground. The white ground, the black and tan brush marks and the small script signature are presentation; the distressed words are the face.
Distressed · Varsity · Block
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Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing College Distressed with grounded secondary typography.
Structured Secondary Voice
College Distressed + Glofi
Grounds bold display lettering with classic typographic authority on posters, badges and apparel.
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Project & layout
blueprints.
Concrete hierarchy, scale and production guidance tailored to College Distressed’s stroke geometry.
Shirt print for an alumni event
The chipped slabs suit a worn varsity shirt, and the block weight holds a long class name at 70 mm across a printed chest.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 300 mm chest print: set the name at 70 mm in one ink, keep every chip at 1 mm minimum so the screen holds, and leave 35 mm of clear shirt below for the year.
Pre-production check
Chips under 1 mm block up in a screen print; check the film at full size and simplify the smallest breaks.
Sign for a barn market
The worn block reads from the end of a car park, and the chipped edge suits a timber market sign at 130 mm in one colour.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 600 by 400 mm panel: set the headline at 130 mm, keep 30 mm of border, and print on a matte panel so the chips read as texture rather than as gloss.
Pre-production check
A glossy panel under sunlight hides the chipped contour; check the venue and choose a matte substrate.
Poster for a homecoming game
The distressed varsity caps carry a homecoming poster, and the heavy slabs stay readable at 100 pt beside a match photograph.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print an A2 poster: set the headline at 100 pt across the upper third, set the fixture line in a 20 pt caps beneath, and keep 30 mm of clearance so the chips are not crowded by the image.
Pre-production check
Distress printed over a busy photograph looks like noise; check the poster and keep the headline on a plain ground.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Display · Distressed varsity block capitals with a speckled, chipped edge
- Foundry / creator
- TonisArtStudio
- File formats mentioned
- OTF, TTF
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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