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 [![enter image description here][1]][1] 3. Group everything 4. In the Appearance panel, add a *Distort & Transform > Roughen* effect [![enter image description here][2]][2]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: [![enter image description here][3]][3]Click to see larger [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/BOwrB1iz.png [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/DaAPgad4.png [3]: https://i.sstatic.net/itZXKBzj.png