Distressed Bifa 13 is a bold, narrow, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, branding, apparel, album art, edgy, energetic, urban, handmade, gritty, expressive display, hand-brushed feel, worn texture, high-impact titling, brush script, dry brush, textured strokes, angular, compressed.
A slanted brush-script with compressed proportions and a brisk, handwritten rhythm. Strokes show pronounced tapering and pressure changes, moving from sharp hairline entries to thick, inky downstrokes. Edges are intentionally rough and broken in places, giving a dry-brush, slightly distressed print texture. Letterforms are mostly unconnected and angular for a script, with pointed terminals, compact counters, and occasional ink buildup at joins and curves.
Best suited to short, high-impact text such as posters, packaging callouts, logos, apparel graphics, and social media titles where the textured brush character can read large. It can work for subheads or pull quotes when given generous size and contrast against the background.
The overall tone is bold and streetwise, combining the immediacy of marker lettering with a worn, gritty finish. It feels fast, assertive, and informal—more like a tagged headline than a polished calligraphic script.
The design appears intended to capture expressive brush lettering with a deliberately weathered finish, prioritizing momentum and attitude over pristine uniformity. The compressed slant and textured stroke edges reinforce a contemporary, hand-made look aimed at attention-grabbing display settings.
Uppercase characters read as simplified, brush-drawn caps rather than formal script capitals, while the lowercase maintains a lively forward motion with tight spacing potential. Numerals follow the same brush logic with tapered starts and slightly irregular curves, keeping texture consistent across the set.