Distressed Ursi 1 is a bold, narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, album art, apparel, energetic, casual, streetwise, handmade, retro, hand-painted feel, gritty emphasis, analog texture, display impact, brushy, textured, jagged, expressive, slanted.
A slanted brush-script with heavy, tapered strokes and visibly rough, broken edges that read like dry-brush or worn marker. Letterforms are compact with tight internal spaces and a quick, forward-leaning rhythm, while stroke endings flick and blunt unpredictably, enhancing the handmade feel. The baseline is generally steady but the contours wobble slightly, creating a lively, imperfect texture across both caps and lowercase. Numerals follow the same painted construction, with simplified shapes and intermittent raggedness along curves and joins.
Best suited for short, high-impact settings such as posters, event promos, packaging accents, album/playlist artwork, and apparel graphics where the textured brush character can read clearly. It can also work for punchy pull quotes or social graphics, but the rugged edges and tight counters make it less ideal for long text or small sizes.
The font feels fast, informal, and assertive—more like a hand-painted sign or notebook scrawl than a polished calligraphic script. Its gritty texture adds attitude and a slightly vintage, analog edge, suggesting motion and spontaneity rather than refinement.
The design appears intended to capture the immediacy of hand-painted lettering while adding a controlled, repeatable roughness for a distressed, print-worn look. Its slanted, compact forms emphasize speed and emphasis, making it a display face aimed at expressive branding and promotional typography.
Spacing appears tight and the joins are implied rather than fully connected, so words maintain a script-like flow without forming true continuous cursive. Distress is consistent across the set, showing up as uneven outlines, nicks, and occasional thinning within strokes, which becomes more noticeable at larger sizes.