Distressed Yase 1 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, branding, packaging, headlines, album art, handwritten, rugged, casual, expressive, vintage, handmade look, gritty texture, dynamic script, casual emphasis, retro edge, brushy, textured, dry brush, slanted, nervy.
A slanted handwritten design with brush-pen construction and lightly broken, textured edges that suggest a dry marker or rough ink on paper. Strokes taper and swell modestly, with frequent stroke flicks and sharpened terminals that keep the rhythm lively. The letterforms are compact and slightly condensed, with a low x-height and tall ascenders/descenders that add vertical animation. Spacing and widths vary naturally, and the overall texture stays consistently rough without becoming illegible.
Best suited to display settings where texture and personality are assets, such as posters, apparel graphics, packaging, and brand accents. It performs well for short headlines, pull quotes, and taglines, and can be used for brief passages when set with generous size and spacing to preserve the rough stroke detail.
The font conveys an informal, energetic tone with a gritty, analog feel. Its dry-brush texture and quick cursive motion read as personal and imperfect in a deliberate way, evoking handmade signage, sketchbook notes, and worn printed ephemera.
Likely designed to capture the immediacy of hand-lettered brush writing while adding a controlled, weathered texture for a more tactile, printed look. The consistent slant and compact proportions suggest an emphasis on fast, expressive readability in bold display contexts rather than formal script refinement.
Uppercase forms lean toward simplified, hand-drawn caps that pair seamlessly with the more cursive lowercase. Numerals follow the same brisk, handwritten logic, with angled strokes and slightly uneven curves that reinforce the distressed texture.