Distressed Vuhe 9 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, headlines, packaging, merch, grunge, handmade, raw, playful, punk, texture, authenticity, impact, diy, brushy, ragged, blotchy, roughened, organic.
A rough, hand-rendered text face with thick, brushy strokes and noticeably uneven contours. Letterforms are mostly upright with simplified, rounded structures, but edges wobble and fray as if painted with a dry marker or stamped with imperfect ink. Stroke endings are blunt and irregular, counters are inconsistently shaped, and widths vary from glyph to glyph, producing a lively, non-mechanical rhythm. Numerals and lowercase follow the same chunky, distressed construction, keeping color dense and texture-forward in paragraphs.
Best suited for display applications where texture and attitude are desired: posters, event flyers, album/cover art, apparel graphics, packaging accents, and short headlines. It can work for short bursts of copy in large sizes, but long-form reading or small UI text will likely feel heavy and visually noisy.
The overall tone feels gritty and handmade, with a casual, slightly rebellious energy. Its imperfect ink texture reads as DIY, zine-like, and street-level, adding personality and immediacy rather than polish.
The design appears intended to emulate imperfect, hand-applied lettering—somewhere between brush lettering and rough print—capturing the look of worn ink and uneven pressure. The goal is expressive impact and tactile texture rather than typographic neutrality or precision.
The distressed edge texture is strong enough to become part of the typographic color, especially at smaller sizes where shapes can close up. Spacing looks broadly workable for display text, but the irregular silhouettes create a naturally jittery line texture that will dominate any layout.