Distressed Ohfu 9 is a bold, narrow, high contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, streetwear, headlines, packaging, grunge, edgy, handmade, expressive, raw, hand-painted look, added texture, high impact, human warmth, brushy, textured, rough, slanted, dry-brush.
A slanted, brush-script display face with thick-to-thin stroke modulation and visibly dry, broken edges. Letterforms show strong pressure changes, tapered terminals, and occasional ink skips that create texture inside strokes and along contours. The rhythm is lively and irregular, with uneven stroke widths and slightly varying proportions that reinforce a hand-painted feel while still keeping characters generally legible in short runs.
Best suited to display settings where texture and personality are desired, such as posters, album/playlist artwork, event flyers, streetwear branding, and punchy packaging labels. It works well for short headlines, logos, and callouts, but the distressed brush detail can get noisy at small sizes or in long paragraphs.
The overall tone is energetic and gritty, evoking street-level, DIY, and music-poster aesthetics. Its rough brush texture reads as confident and immediate, adding urgency and attitude rather than polish.
The design appears intended to simulate fast, pressure-driven brush lettering with a deliberately imperfect ink texture, giving digital type an authentic hand-painted presence. It prioritizes impact and character over strict uniformity, aiming for a contemporary, gritty script voice.
Uppercase forms lean toward gestural caps with simplified construction, while lowercase keeps a quick handwritten cadence; the textured edges remain consistent across letters and numerals. Numerals follow the same brush treatment with rounded, painted shapes and occasional rough hollows where the brush lifts.