Distressed Uhba 3 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, headlines, album art, social media, handwritten, rough, casual, expressive, vintage, handmade feel, grit texture, informal tone, display impact, brushy, textured, scratchy, leaning, inked.
A slanted, handwritten face with brush-pen construction and visibly textured strokes. Letterforms are built from quick, tapered gestures with moderate thick–thin variation and frequent dry-brush breakup along edges and terminals. The rhythm is lively and uneven, with variable stroke pressure and occasional wobble that reinforces an analog, hand-drawn feel. Counters are generally open and simplified, and the set keeps a compact vertical footprint with long, energetic ascenders and descenders in several lowercase forms.
Works best at display sizes where the brush texture and tapered strokes remain visible—such as posters, packaging labels, album/cover art, and short headlines. It can add personality to social graphics and branding accents, especially where an intentionally imperfect, hand-rendered look is desired. For longer passages or small sizes, the distressed texture and lively rhythm may reduce clarity.
The overall tone is informal and human, like marker or brush lettering made in one pass. The distressed texture adds a worn, gritty edge that reads as craft, DIY, or lightly rebellious rather than polished. It feels energetic and personable, suited to expressive statements over careful neutrality.
The design appears intended to simulate fast, authentic brush handwriting with a deliberately worn print texture. Its goal is to deliver immediacy and character—more like a hand-lettered note or bold marker caption than a refined script.
Uppercase forms lean toward simplified, sign-like shapes while the lowercase reads more cursive, creating a mixed-case voice typical of quick brush scripts. Numerals follow the same gestural logic, with rounded forms that show the same dry-brush variation and slight irregularity from character to character.