Distressed Ufna 9 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, social ads, album art, headlines, handmade, casual, gritty, energetic, expressive, hand lettering, authentic texture, display impact, casual voice, brushy, textured, slanted, condensed, lively.
A slanted, brush-pen style face with condensed proportions and visibly textured edges. Strokes show clear pressure modulation, with thicker downstrokes and finer upstrokes, plus occasional ink pooling and dry-brush breakup that creates a rough, mottled silhouette. Terminals are tapered and slightly uneven, and curves are built from quick, gestural strokes rather than polished geometry. Spacing and character widths vary in a natural handwritten rhythm, keeping the overall texture lively and informal while remaining legible in short lines.
Best suited to display applications where the brush texture and condensed energy can carry the layout—posters, event flyers, packaging callouts, social media graphics, and album or merch lettering. It can work for short subheads or pull quotes when you want an informal, handcrafted voice, but the rough edges and narrow build favor larger sizes over long-form text.
The overall tone is spontaneous and human, with a slightly worn, street-poster grit. It reads as upbeat and conversational, like fast marker lettering, but with enough edge texture to feel raw and tactile.
Likely designed to capture quick brush lettering with a condensed, forward-leaning stance and built-in edge texture, providing a ready-made handmade look without needing custom lettering. The irregularities appear intentional to preserve an authentic, analog feel.
The alphabet shows consistent slant and brush behavior across capitals, lowercase, and numerals, with distinctive handwritten forms (notably the narrow, tall figures and lively lowercase). The distressing is integrated into the stroke rendering rather than added as a separate effect, so the texture stays coherent at display sizes.