Distressed Data 6 is a bold, very narrow, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, streetwear, event promos, headlines, raw, energetic, gritty, streetwise, handmade, handmade feel, urban edge, expressive display, rough texture, fast motion, brush, dry stroke, condensed, slanted, jagged.
A slanted, condensed brush style with visibly dry, textured strokes and frequent tapering. Letterforms show irregular edges, slight wobble, and occasional ink breaks that create a distressed, hand-drawn surface. The rhythm is quick and angular, with narrow counters, compact proportions, and a lively baseline bounce that keeps words feeling in motion.
Best suited for short-to-medium display settings where texture and motion are desirable, such as posters, music or nightlife graphics, streetwear branding, and punchy social media headlines. It can also work for packaging accents or pull quotes, but the distressed stroke texture favors larger sizes over long, continuous reading.
The font conveys a fast, rough, expressive tone—more like a marker or brush scrawl than a polished script. Its scratchy texture and energetic slant suggest urgency and attitude, reading as contemporary, edgy, and deliberately imperfect.
The design appears intended to emulate a quick, dry-brush inscription with a purposely rough finish, prioritizing expressive impact over refinement. Its condensed, slanted build and high-energy stroke behavior suggest it was drawn for attention-grabbing display typography in modern, gritty themed work.
Caps and lowercase share a consistent brush logic, with pointed terminals and occasional blunt, overbrushed joins that add visual noise in a controlled way. Numerals follow the same hurried, hand-rendered character, making mixed text feel cohesive and poster-like.