Distressed Ulno 8 is a regular weight, narrow, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, headlines, event flyers, packaging, raw, energetic, expressive, urban, handmade, brush realism, grit texture, high impact, handmade feel, edgy tone, brushy, rough, inky, jagged, angular.
An italic, brush-driven letterform with sharp entries and tapered exits, showing strong thick–thin modulation and frequent dry-brush breakup along the strokes. The texture reads as inky and distressed, with uneven edges, occasional speckling, and slightly irregular stroke continuity that mimics fast marker or brush lettering on absorbent paper. Proportions are compact and condensed overall, with lively baseline movement and noticeable width variability from glyph to glyph. Counters stay relatively tight and open shapes are often cut by abrupt terminals, reinforcing the rough, hand-made rhythm.
Best suited to display settings where texture is an asset: posters, music and festival graphics, brand marks needing a hand-painted edge, and bold packaging callouts. It works especially well for short phrases, titles, and impact lines where the distressed brush detail can be appreciated.
The font conveys a gritty, high-energy attitude—part street poster, part punk/garage show handbill. Its scratchy brush texture and slanted momentum feel urgent and outspoken, with an expressive, human imperfection that leans more rebellious than refined.
The design appears intended to emulate rapid brush lettering with deliberate wear and ink breakup, prioritizing expressive motion and tactile texture over typographic neutrality. Its condensed, slanted stance and high-contrast strokes aim to deliver strong visual punch in thematic, attitude-forward design contexts.
Capitals are gestural and angular with assertive diagonals, while lowercase forms keep a quick handwritten feel and simplified joins. Numerals follow the same brush logic, with slashed, calligraphic strokes and uneven texture that remains consistent across the set. At smaller sizes the distressed edges may visually fill in, while larger settings emphasize the dry-brush character.