Distressed Utba 13 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, packaging, branding, headlines, handmade, gritty, casual, expressive, energetic, handmade feel, worn print, expressive display, casual emphasis, brushy, roughened, dry-brush, slanted, script-like.
A slanted, brush-pen style Latin with irregular, dry-brush texture throughout. Strokes show tapering entries and exits, uneven width, and occasional broken edges that suggest a worn or ink-starved mark. Letterforms are compact and tightly drawn with narrow proportions, while spacing and stroke rhythm remain lively and slightly inconsistent in a natural handwritten way. Capitals read as brisk, simplified brush capitals, and the lowercase maintains a small body with long, gestural ascenders and descenders that add vertical motion in text.
Best suited to display settings where the brush texture can be appreciated: posters, cover art, event promotion, packaging accents, and brand marks that want a handcrafted edge. It can also work for short emphatic subheads or pull quotes, but the distressed detailing may reduce clarity in small sizes or dense paragraphs.
The overall tone feels handmade and gritty, like quick signage or a marker note that has been reproduced and weathered. Its scratchy texture and energetic slant give it a restless, informal personality suited to expressive, human-forward messaging rather than polished corporate neutrality.
The design appears intended to capture fast brush lettering with a deliberately rough print/scan character, balancing legible forms with expressive texture. It aims to deliver an authentic, imperfect handwritten feel for dramatic, contemporary display typography.
The distressed texture is consistent across letters and numerals, creating a cohesive ‘ink-on-paper’ effect. In longer lines the stroke breakup becomes a key feature, so the face benefits from generous size and contrast against clean backgrounds.