Distressed Anjo 8 is a regular weight, very narrow, high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, headlines, craft branding, album art, handmade, rustic, playful, crafty, casual, handcrafted feel, added grit, expressive display, casual branding, brushy, textured, spiky, quirky, lively.
A condensed, handwritten display face with brush-pen construction and sharp, tapering terminals. Strokes show pronounced contrast and frequent texture breaks, producing a dry-ink look with slightly ragged edges and occasional interior speckling. Letterforms are mostly upright with a narrow overall set, while widths and stroke behavior vary enough to keep an informal rhythm. Caps are tall and simplified; lowercase is compact with relatively short x-height and energetic ascenders/descenders, and numerals follow the same narrow, hand-drawn logic.
Best suited to short-to-medium display settings where the textured brush character can read clearly—posters, product packaging, café or market branding, event promotions, and editorial headlines. It can also work for pull quotes or social graphics when set with generous size and tracking.
The texture and irregularity give the font a lived-in, crafty tone—more handmade than polished. Its sharp points and dry-brush grain add a bit of grit, while the narrow, bouncy rhythm keeps it friendly and expressive.
The design appears intended to emulate a narrow brush script/print hybrid with deliberate distress, capturing the spontaneity of hand lettering while maintaining enough structure for repeatable display typography.
In running text, the distressed stroke texture remains visible and becomes a defining feature, especially in rounded letters and bowls. Spacing feels naturally uneven in a handwritten way, which enhances character but can reduce clarity at smaller sizes or in dense settings.