Distressed Anda 7 is a regular weight, very narrow, high contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, packaging, headlines, social ads, gritty, energetic, streetwise, informal, expressive, handmade feel, raw texture, high impact, display emphasis, brushy, rough, dry-brush, handmade, textured.
A slanted, brush-pen style face with lively, tapered strokes and pronounced thick–thin modulation. Letterforms are condensed and irregular in width, with a dry-brush texture that creates broken edges and occasional interior voids. Strokes show quick directional changes and slightly inconsistent terminals, giving the forms a spontaneous, hand-rendered rhythm. Capitals are tall and angular with simplified construction, while lowercase remains compact with a small x-height and tightly looped counters.
Best suited for short, high-impact settings where texture is an advantage: posters, event flyers, album/cover art, apparel graphics, packaging callouts, and social media headlines. It can also work for branding accents or pull quotes when paired with a cleaner text face for longer reading.
The texture and rapid brush movement give the font a raw, human feel—more improvised than polished. It reads as bold and contemporary, with an urban, poster-like attitude that suggests motion, noise, and urgency.
The design appears intended to mimic quick marker or brush lettering with intentional wear, capturing the look of ink drag and uneven pressure. Its goal is to deliver expressive display typography that feels handmade and slightly rough, emphasizing personality over neutrality.
Spacing appears tight and visually uneven in a natural way, with some letters gaining presence from heavy downstrokes and others thinning dramatically at exits and joins. Numerals follow the same brush logic, with open, gestural shapes and lightly frayed contours that reinforce the distressed impression.