Distressed Ubpy 2 is a regular weight, very narrow, high contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, headlines, social media, album art, handmade, expressive, gritty, casual, energetic, handcrafted feel, dramatic texture, quick lettering, bold personality, brushy, textured, rough, inked, condensed.
A condensed, brush-script style with a strong forward slant and visibly textured strokes. Letterforms show pronounced thick-to-thin modulation, with pressure-like swelling on downstrokes and tapering entry/exit strokes that often end in sharp points. Edges are irregular and ink-worn, creating a dry-brush, slightly broken silhouette that stays consistent across the set. Spacing is tight and rhythmic, with tall ascenders/descenders and compact lowercase bodies that emphasize a quick, handwritten cadence. Numerals follow the same narrow, gestural construction and maintain the rough ink texture.
Best suited for short-form display use where its brush texture and slanted motion can remain legible and intentional—posters, cover art, packaging callouts, and social graphics. It can also work for logo wordmarks or event titles when set with generous size and careful spacing, but is less appropriate for long passages or small UI text where the distressed edges may clutter.
The overall tone feels spontaneous and human, like a quick note made with a brush pen on rough paper. Its distressed texture adds grit and attitude, leaning toward a streetwise, indie, or handcrafted sensibility rather than polished elegance. The slanted, high-contrast motion gives it a lively, assertive voice suited to punchy, personality-forward messaging.
Designed to capture the immediacy of brush lettering with a deliberately weathered print feel, balancing energetic stroke contrast with a tight, condensed footprint. The consistent roughness and tapering terminals suggest an aim for handcrafted authenticity and visual punch in display settings.
Uppercase characters are simple, narrow, and gesture-led, while the lowercase introduces more calligraphic loops and brisk terminals; together they read as a cohesive informal script rather than a formal cursive. The texture is prominent enough that small sizes may soften the rough detail, while larger settings preserve the brush character most clearly.