Distressed Bibo 7 is a regular weight, very narrow, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, social ads, headlines, album art, handmade, expressive, gritty, casual, energetic, handwritten look, brush texture, raw display, tactile print, brushy, textured, ragged, dry-brush, loose.
A slanted, brush-driven script with brisk, narrow proportions and a lively, uneven rhythm. Strokes show clear pressure changes and dry-brush texture, producing rough edges, occasional thinning, and slightly broken joins. Letterforms are simplified and gestural rather than calligraphically strict, with a mix of rounded bowls and sharp, flicked terminals; spacing and widths vary to preserve an organic, handwritten flow. Uppercase forms read as bold brush caps, while the lowercase stays compact with small counters and short ascenders/descenders relative to the overall slant.
Best suited to short, prominent text where the brush texture can be appreciated—posters, packaging callouts, social graphics, and punchy headlines. It can work for brief subheads or pull quotes, but the distressed edges and tight, slanted construction make it less ideal for long-form reading at small sizes.
The font feels spontaneous and human, combining a friendly handwritten tone with a worn, gritty finish. Its dry-brush texture and quick stroke endings suggest motion and informality, giving it an energetic, street-level character that reads as expressive rather than polished.
Designed to emulate fast brush lettering with a deliberately imperfect, worn imprint. The goal appears to be an expressive display face that delivers handcrafted energy and tactile texture while remaining legible in attention-grabbing settings.
Texture density varies from glyph to glyph, with some letters showing heavier ink buildup and others appearing more dry and streaked, which reinforces the distressed look in longer text. Numerals follow the same brush logic, with open, gestural forms designed to match the letter rhythm.