Distressed Fisa 4 is a regular weight, very narrow, high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, album art, packaging, event promos, handmade, grunge, playful, edgy, casual, handwritten effect, distressed texture, expressive display, poster impact, brushy, scratchy, inked, jittery, condensed.
A condensed, hand-drawn display face with brush-ink construction and visible texture in the strokes. Letterforms are mostly upright with lively wobble, rough edges, and occasional dry-brush gaps that create a worn, printed feel. Strokes show pronounced contrast between thick verticals and tapered joins, with pointed terminals and irregular curves that keep the rhythm energetic. Counters are compact and sometimes pinched, and spacing feels uneven in an intentional, handmade way for a more organic line of text.
Best suited to display applications where texture and personality are an asset: posters, headlines, event promotions, music or entertainment artwork, and expressive packaging. It can also work for short pull quotes or social graphics when a handmade, distressed voice is desired.
The overall tone is raw and expressive—part street-poster, part sketchbook marker—balancing a friendly informality with a slightly gritty, rebellious edge. It reads as spontaneous and human, adding motion and personality rather than polish.
The design appears intended to simulate quick, inked brush lettering with a deliberately distressed finish, delivering a compact, attention-grabbing silhouette while preserving an imperfect, human-made character.
Uppercase and lowercase share the same rough, brushy logic, and the numerals follow the same narrow, textured construction. The texture and contrast become more apparent at larger sizes, while smaller sizes may look more crowded due to the condensed proportions and irregular stroke edges.