Distressed Uhmu 3 is a regular weight, narrow, high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, album covers, posters, game ui, packaging, grunge, handmade, spooky, raw, rustic, add texture, create tension, handmade feel, aged print effect, expressive display, brushy, ragged, scratchy, textured, uneven.
A condensed, hand-rendered text face with brush-ink construction and heavily irregular edges. Strokes show pronounced texture, with ragged terminals, occasional ink drag, and small breaks that create a worn printed feel. Letterforms are mostly upright with a lively, inconsistent rhythm: bowls and stems vary slightly from glyph to glyph, counters are compact, and curves often resolve into tapered, bristled ends. Overall spacing reads tight and somewhat unpredictable, reinforcing the handmade character.
Best suited for short to medium-length display text where texture and mood are the priority: horror or thriller titles, band/album art, event posters, game titles and UI headings, and rustic or craft-forward packaging. It can work in captions or short blurbs when set with generous size and line spacing to preserve the distressed detail.
The font conveys a gritty, eerie, DIY tone—like hurried brush lettering captured through rough reproduction. Its distressed texture and sharp, scratchy terminals suggest suspense, folklore, and underground poster aesthetics rather than polished editorial typography.
The design appears intended to simulate expressive brush lettering that has been weathered or roughly printed, prioritizing atmosphere and tactile texture over uniformity. Its narrow proportions and high-contrast stroke behavior help it read strongly in headline settings while still feeling handmade and imperfect.
Uppercase forms feel more display-oriented, while the lowercase retains the same rough texture with simpler, narrow shapes that can clump in dense settings. Numerals follow the same brushed treatment, with uneven curves and textured spines that help maintain stylistic continuity across alphanumerics.