Distressed Dise 13 is a bold, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, branding, merchandise, rustic, handmade, playful, vintage, casual, handcrafted feel, worn print, casual display, retro texture, roughened, textured, brushy, inky, organic.
A slanted, hand-rendered display face with compact proportions and a lively, uneven rhythm. Strokes resemble brush or marker lettering, with rounded terminals, occasional teardrop-like ends, and subtly wobbling curves. The letterforms show deliberate distressing: speckled counters, worn-looking interiors, and irregular edges that create a printed-by-hand texture. Overall spacing and widths vary from glyph to glyph, reinforcing an informal, handmade feel while keeping silhouettes clear at display sizes.
Best suited for display applications where the distressed texture and brush movement can read clearly—posters, headlines, product packaging, café menus, stickers, and branding moments that benefit from an artisanal or vintage-printed look. It can also work in short subheads or pull quotes when ample size and spacing are available to preserve the interior texture.
The texture and slanted brush motion give the font a friendly, crafty tone—part retro sign-painting, part DIY label. It feels warm and approachable rather than formal, with a slightly rugged, well-used character that suggests authenticity and personality.
The design appears intended to emulate quick brush lettering with a worn print or ink-bleed finish, combining energetic slant and irregular widths with controlled legibility. Its consistent distressing and rounded, inky forms suggest a purposeful “handmade and weathered” aesthetic for themed display work.
Texture appears embedded within the black shapes rather than only along the outline, producing a mottled, ink-worn effect that becomes a key part of the voice. Numerals and capitals maintain the same brushy construction and distressed fill, helping the set feel cohesive across headings and short bursts of copy.