Distressed Buti 3 is a bold, narrow, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, album art, event promos, handmade, gritty, energetic, casual, rebellious, handmade effect, brush lettering, impact display, grunge texture, casual branding, brushy, textured, ragged, expressive, dynamic.
A brush-script display with dense, ink-heavy strokes and sharp contrast between broad pressure marks and tapered exits. Letterforms lean forward with lively rhythm, mixing rounded bowls and angular joins, and showing uneven stroke edges, blotting, and occasional dry-brush gaps that create a rough printed texture. Caps are tall and assertive with simplified, poster-like shapes, while lowercase remains compact and slightly irregular, reinforcing the hand-drawn construction. Numerals follow the same painted logic, with chunky bodies, quick terminals, and minor width variation from glyph to glyph.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as posters, headlines, packaging callouts, and promotional graphics where the brush texture can remain visible. It can also work for album art, social media graphics, and branding accents when a handcrafted, worn-in feel is desired.
The overall tone feels raw and handmade, like painted signage or a quick marker/brush note captured mid-gesture. Its distressed texture and forward motion give it an energetic, slightly rebellious character that reads casual rather than polished.
The design appears intended to emulate bold brush lettering with authentic ink wear, prioritizing gesture, texture, and attitude over uniform typographic smoothness. It aims to deliver strong presence and a tactile, printed-on-paper impression in display sizes.
The texture is an integral part of the design: edges are intentionally imperfect, counters can appear partially filled, and stroke endings often break into rough, bristled tips. Spacing appears organically irregular, which adds personality but benefits from generous tracking and size in longer lines.