Distressed Ufla 3 is a bold, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, album art, apparel, social graphics, gritty, handmade, energetic, casual, urban, handwritten texture, display impact, raw expressiveness, street style, brushy, roughened, dry-brush, slanted, compressed.
A condensed, slanted brush style with confident, heavy strokes and a dry-brush texture that creates broken edges and occasional speckling. Letterforms are tall and narrow with lively stroke tapering, subtle angle variation, and irregular terminals that suggest quick marker or paintbrush movement. The rhythm is punchy and uneven in an intentional way, with simplified counters and occasional stroke overlap that reinforces the hand-rendered feel.
Best suited for short, high-impact text such as posters, headlines, packaging callouts, album/playlist artwork, and apparel graphics. The compressed width and strong presence help it hold up at display sizes, while the distressed brush texture makes it less appropriate for long passages or small UI text.
The font conveys a gritty, streetwise energy—expressive and informal rather than polished. Its rough texture and fast, brush-written motion read as spontaneous and assertive, lending a poster-like urgency with a handmade authenticity.
The design appears intended to mimic fast, pressure-sensitive brush lettering with a worn, imperfect print impression. It prioritizes attitude, motion, and tactile texture over smooth precision, aiming to deliver an expressive display voice that feels immediate and hand-made.
Uppercase forms stay compact and upright-leaning in their structure, while lowercase is more fluid and note-like, with distinctive, looped descenders on letters such as g, j, and y. Numerals match the same brisk brush logic, with narrow silhouettes and textured joins that keep them visually consistent in headings.