@shipen asked for a very exacting requirement in https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...y-hand-in-XDPX.

This is an automatic alternative that does not meet the brief in that the width of any Lines are not maintained: SVG + CSS - Turbulence Ahead.xar, instead everything is wibbled.

You can tweak the baseFrequency pair, the numOctaves & scale to achieve grunge edging effects.
Text remains text.

Acorn