Distressed Bine 9 is a bold, narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, logos, headlines, merchandise, handmade, playful, rugged, casual, crafty, hand-lettered look, tactile texture, casual impact, craft aesthetic, brushy, textured, organic, roughened, chunky.
A rough, hand-rendered display face with heavy strokes and visibly irregular contours. Letterforms show variable stroke swelling and tapering, with slightly uneven terminals and a dry-brush texture that creates broken edges and small inked-in lumps. Proportions are compact with relatively short lowercase bodies and lively, inconsistent widths that enhance the drawn-in-marker feel. Counters are generally open and rounded, and the overall rhythm is deliberately imperfect rather than mechanically uniform.
Best suited for short-to-medium display copy where texture and personality are an advantage: posters and flyers, product packaging, café/market signage, album or event branding, and bold logotypes. It can also work for punchy pull quotes or social graphics, while extended small-size text may lose clarity due to the rough edges and irregular stroke behavior.
The font conveys an informal, human tone—confident and a bit scrappy—like hand-lettering on packaging, posters, or a chalkboard sign. Its textured finish and bouncy spacing read as approachable and crafty, with a subtly gritty, street-level energy.
The design appears intended to emulate bold hand lettering made with a marker or dry brush, preserving natural wobble and printing imperfections. Its goal is to add immediacy and tactile character to contemporary display typography without sacrificing basic readability.
Uppercase forms remain simple and legible while retaining wobble and texture; lowercase has a more handwritten personality with occasional quirky shapes (notably in letters like g, y, and k). Numerals match the same brushy construction and maintain strong presence in headlines. The texture becomes more apparent at larger sizes, where the distressed edges and stroke variation define the character.