Distressed Ubpa 9 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, packaging, headlines, stickers, handmade, gritty, casual, energetic, playful, handcrafted look, expressive display, grunge texture, casual branding, high-impact titles, brushy, roughened, textured, organic, bouncy.
A compact, brush-pen styled face with a narrow overall footprint and a lively rightward slant. Strokes show pronounced pressure changes and visible drag, creating roughened edges, occasional ink breaks, and dark, pooled terminals. Letterforms lean toward simplified handwritten construction with slightly uneven baselines and irregular stroke joins, producing a deliberately imperfect rhythm. Counters are small and sometimes partially filled by texture, while ascenders stay tall and lowercase proportions remain tight, reinforcing a condensed, vertical feel.
Well-suited to short display settings where a rough, handmade voice is desirable—posters, event graphics, album/playlist covers, apparel graphics, packaging accents, and bold social media headlines. It can add personality to pull quotes or title treatments, especially when paired with a quieter text face for body copy.
The font projects an informal, hand-done attitude with a gritty, street-level texture. Its energetic slant and brushy stroke behavior suggest quick mark-making—confident but not polished—giving it a spontaneous, expressive tone that feels contemporary and slightly rebellious.
The design appears intended to capture the immediacy of brush lettering while preserving legibility in a condensed, space-efficient silhouette. Its distressed texture and uneven stroke edges look purpose-built to add grit and movement to display typography without requiring custom hand lettering.
Texture is consistent across caps, lowercase, and numerals, with the most character coming from ragged contours and ink-like speckling within strokes. The overall color on the page is dark and assertive, making it read more like painted lettering than clean pen script.