Distressed Obru 5 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, horror titles, streetwear, event flyers, raw, gritty, urgent, handmade, expressive, handwritten grit, textured impact, diy edge, expressive display, brushy, jagged, inked, dry-brush, scratchy.
An energetic, hand-rendered brush style with jagged contours and visibly uneven stroke edges, as if made with a dry marker or rough brush on textured paper. Strokes taper irregularly and occasionally flare at terminals, creating a lively rhythm and a slightly unstable baseline. Letterforms lean and vary in width from glyph to glyph, with compact counters and simplified interior shapes that favor speed and gesture over precision.
Best suited to display settings where texture and attitude are an asset: posters, album/cover art, event flyers, and branded graphics that want a raw handmade edge. It works well for short headlines, punchy calls-to-action, and thematic titling, but the distressed stroke detail can become noisy in long text or at small sizes.
The overall tone feels gritty and immediate, with a rebellious, DIY character. Its roughened texture and restless stroke energy suggest urgency and intensity rather than polish, lending a street-level, zine-like attitude to headlines and short phrases.
Likely designed to capture the look of fast, forceful brush lettering—imperfect, textured, and human—while maintaining enough structure for clear recognition across the alphabet and numerals. The intent appears to be expressive impact and atmosphere, prioritizing gesture and roughness over typographic refinement.
Caps read bold and poster-like, while the lowercase keeps a quick handwritten feel; both share consistent rough edging and tapered ends. Numerals follow the same improvised construction, staying legible while retaining the same scratchy texture and irregular weight distribution.