Distressed Opmep 13 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album covers, apparel, branding, packaging, rugged, expressive, handmade, gritty, energetic, hand-lettered feel, analog texture, grunge impact, diy personality, brushy, textured, dry-brush, irregular, slanted.
A slanted, brush-script style with visibly textured strokes and irregular edges that suggest dry ink or worn printing. Letterforms are loosely connected in feel but remain mostly discrete, with a lively baseline and uneven rhythm that reinforces a handmade character. Strokes show natural tapering and occasional swelling, with pointed terminals and abrupt flicks that mimic quick brush turns. Proportions vary from glyph to glyph, and counters are often narrow or partially closed, contributing to a dense, ink-rich silhouette in darker joins.
Best suited for display settings where texture and motion are desirable—posters, cover art, labels, and bold branding moments. It also works well for short pull quotes, event titles, and apparel graphics where a hand-painted, distressed script can carry the visual voice on its own.
The overall tone is raw and human, balancing casual informality with a slightly aggressive, street-level energy. Its rough texture and fast handwriting cadence feel spontaneous and expressive rather than polished, giving text a rebellious, DIY attitude.
The design appears intended to capture the immediacy of quick brush lettering while preserving legibility, using deliberate roughness and uneven rhythm to evoke analog ink and lived-in surfaces. It prioritizes personality and impact over typographic neutrality, aiming for an authentic handmade look that feels energetic and imperfect.
Caps lean toward gestural, signature-like forms, while the lowercase keeps a compact, note-taking feel; together they create an intentionally uneven, kinetic texture across lines. Numerals follow the same brushy construction and slant, reading as hand-drawn rather than engineered. The texture is a prominent feature at all sizes, so the font’s character remains visible even in short words or headlines.