Distressed Urmi 10 is a bold, normal width, very high contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, apparel, album art, headlines, vintage, rugged, playful, handmade, energetic, retro print, handmade feel, rough ink, poster impact, expressive display, brushy, textured, inky, expressive, choppy edges.
A slanted, brush-driven letterform with compact proportions and a lively, uneven rhythm. Strokes show strong thick–thin modulation with pointed terminals and occasional blunt, frayed endings, creating a printed-ink texture across both stems and curves. Counters are generally open but irregular, and many glyphs display subtle wobble and width variation that reads as hand-rendered rather than mechanically precise. The surface distressing is consistent throughout, with speckled edges and rough interior scuffs that mimic worn type or dry-brush printing.
Best suited for display typography where texture and personality are desirable—posters, labels, packaging, apparel graphics, album art, and punchy editorial headlines. It works particularly well in short phrases, branding marks, and callouts where the distressed brush texture can be appreciated without compromising readability.
The overall tone feels vintage and rugged, like an old poster pulled from a letterpress drawer and re-inked in a hurry. Its energetic slant and textured edges add a sense of movement and grit, balancing charm with a slightly rowdy, handcrafted attitude.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold, italicized brush-script/brush-serif hybrid with a convincingly worn print texture. Its consistent distress pattern and expressive contrast suggest an aim to evoke retro printing, handmade signage, and rough-ink impressions while staying legible for attention-grabbing display copy.
Caps and lowercase share the same textured, ink-worn treatment, helping the font maintain a unified voice in mixed-case settings. The numerals follow the same brush-and-distress logic, with prominent contours and roughened horizontals that keep them visually aligned with the alphabet. At smaller sizes the distressing may merge into dark spots, while at display sizes the dry-brush detail becomes a defining feature.