Distressed Unba 14 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, streetwear, social graphics, headlines, handwritten, casual, edgy, expressive, gritty, handmade feel, textured ink, informal display, urban edge, quick lettering, brushy, rough, jagged, slanted, condensed.
A condensed, right-slanted handwritten style with brush-pen construction and subtly uneven stroke edges. Strokes show medium contrast with tapered terminals, occasional blunt starts, and lightly ragged contours that mimic dry ink or textured paper. Letterforms are simplified and open, with loose, lively spacing and a slightly irregular baseline rhythm that reinforces the hand-made feel. Numerals and capitals follow the same gestural logic, maintaining a cohesive, sketchy texture across the set.
Best suited for short, high-impact settings like posters, covers, packaging accents, and social media graphics where a hand-lettered voice is desirable. It also works well for branding moments that want a casual, slightly rebellious tone, especially in headlines, pull quotes, or logo-like wordmarks rather than extended body text.
The overall tone is informal and energetic, with a gritty, streetwise edge created by the roughened brush texture. It feels spontaneous and personal—more like quick marker lettering than polished calligraphy—making it read as expressive and contemporary rather than classic or formal.
This design appears intended to capture fast, brush-written lettering with a deliberately imperfect, worn texture. The goal seems to be an expressive display face that feels personal and urban, balancing legibility with a raw, hand-made surface.
Uppercase forms are tall and angular, while lowercase stays compact with small counters and brief ascenders/descenders, keeping texture dense at text sizes. The italic slant and narrow proportions help it move quickly across a line, though the distressed edges add visual noise that becomes more pronounced in longer passages.