Distressed Uhwi 10 is a bold, very narrow, high contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, album art, streetwear, event promos, handmade, gritty, energetic, casual, expressive, hand-brushed feel, distressed texture, high-impact display, human imperfection, brushy, roughened, textured, dry-brush, jagged.
A condensed, brush-lettered display face with a pronounced rightward slant and uneven, pressure-driven strokes. Forms are built from tapered, calligraphic marks with abrupt terminals, occasional ink breaks, and rough interior texture that reads like dry brush or worn printing. Letter widths and stroke edges fluctuate from glyph to glyph, creating an intentionally irregular rhythm; counters are often tight and openings can be partially closed by the textured fill. The lowercase appears compact with small bowls and short extenders relative to the assertive capitals, while figures follow the same hand-painted, slightly wobbling construction.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as poster headlines, event promotions, packaging callouts, and music or streetwear graphics where texture is desirable. It can work for punchy subheads or quotes when set with generous tracking and line spacing to keep the distressed strokes from clumping.
The font communicates a raw, handmade immediacy—more street-poster and marker-sign than polished branding. Its distressed texture and brisk slant give it a lively, punchy tone that feels informal, rebellious, and action-oriented.
The design appears intended to emulate fast, confident brush lettering with a deliberately weathered or dry-ink finish, prioritizing attitude and texture over typographic regularity. It aims to provide an expressive, human-made look that stays legible at display sizes while retaining a gritty, imperfect surface.
At text sizes the rough fill and compressed spacing can make dense lines feel dark and busy, while at larger sizes the dry-brush artifacts and tapered strokes become the main visual feature. The sample shows strong momentum in mixed-case settings, with capitals reading like emphatic brush script caps rather than traditional roman forms.