You could create something like this with a Roughen effect in Illustrator.

1. Type some bold text

2. Draw some horizontal lines and use the variable width profile

3. Group everything

4. In the Appearance panel, add a Distort & Transform > Roughen effect

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This could be taken further, to degrade the image even more. You could manually round some of the corners, then take a screenshot, autotrace the image in Illustrator, reduce the number of anchors and corners in the trace settings, and then after tracing add more roughening.

Here's an example of that:

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You could create something like this with a Roughen effect in Illustrator.

1. Type some bold text

2. Draw some horizontal lines and use the variable width profile

3. Group everything

4. In the Appearance panel, add a Distort & Transform > Roughen effect

Click to see larger

This could be taken further, to degrade the image even more. You could manually round some of the corners, then take a screenshot, autotrace the image in Illustrator, reduce the number of anchors and corners in the trace settings, and then after tracing add more roughening.

Here's an example of that:

Click to see larger

You could create something like this with a Roughen effect in Illustrator.

1. Type some bold text

2. Draw some horizontal lines and use the variable width profile

3. Group everything

4. In the Appearance panel, add a Distort & Transform > Roughen effect

Click to see larger

You could create something like this with a Roughen effect in Illustrator.

1. Type some bold text

2. Draw some horizontal lines and use the variable width profile

3. Group everything

4. In the Appearance panel, add a Distort & Transform > Roughen effect

Click to see larger

This could be taken further, to degrade the image even more. You could manually round some of the corners, then take a screenshot, autotrace the image in Illustrator, reduce the number of anchors and corners in the trace settings, and then after tracing add more roughening.

Here's an example of that:

Click to see larger