Distressed Dulo 14 is a bold, narrow, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, branding, apparel, packaging, headlines, handmade, expressive, urban, edgy, vintage, brush lettering, handmade texture, gritty display, expressive headlines, brushy, roughened, textured, dynamic, slanted.
A slanted, brush-script style with compact proportions and energetic stroke motion. Letters are built from tapered, high-contrast strokes that swell into heavy downstrokes and pinch into fine exits, producing a lively handwritten rhythm. Edges and interior fills show consistent roughening and ink-texture artifacts, giving counters and joins a slightly worn, gritty look. The set mixes cursive construction with occasional print-like caps, keeping forms readable while preserving an improvised, marker/brush feel.
Best suited for display applications where texture and motion are desirable: posters, social graphics, product packaging, apparel graphics, and bold headline treatments. It can also work for short subheads or pull quotes, but the distressed brush texture and tight rhythm make it less suitable for long-form small text.
The overall tone is bold and streetwise, with a handcrafted immediacy that feels informal and assertive. The textured stroke makes it read as weathered and authentic rather than polished, suggesting poster culture, packaging stamps, or brush-lettered signage.
The design appears intended to emulate fast brush lettering with visible ink wear, combining strong contrast and slanted momentum to deliver punchy, handcrafted display typography with a gritty finish.
Uppercase letters are generally upright-leaning script forms with simplified terminals, while lowercase maintains a flowing cursive structure; spacing appears tight and word shapes hold together well at display sizes. Numerals follow the same brush logic, with open curves and tapered ends that keep them cohesive in headings and short callouts.