Distressed Buve 14 is a very bold, very narrow, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, apparel, album art, packaging, sports branding, energetic, handmade, edgy, urban, expressive, brush lettering, grit texture, headline impact, handmade feel, modern edge, brushy, textured, inky, roughened, slanted.
A condensed, brush-script display face with a pronounced rightward slant and tightly packed proportions. Strokes look ink-heavy with sharp, tapered terminals and frequent dry-brush texture that creates rough edges and small interior breaks. Curves are compact and slightly angular, and the rhythm is lively rather than mechanically even, giving the alphabet a hand-painted feel across both caps and lowercase. Numerals follow the same gestural logic with bold, calligraphic forms and visible stroke modulation.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as posters, event promos, apparel graphics, and energetic brand marks where texture and motion are desirable. It also works well on packaging or social media graphics when set at larger sizes to preserve the distressed brush details.
The tone is bold and streetwise, with a fast, handwritten energy that feels spontaneous and human. Its rough ink texture adds grit and attitude, pushing it toward contemporary, informal branding and expressive headline work rather than refinement.
The design appears intended to simulate bold brush lettering with intentional wear, combining speed and punch with a gritty printed/painted texture. Its condensed build and strong slant prioritize headline presence and expressive personality over quiet readability in small text.
Caps read like punchy, simplified brush caps while the lowercase stays brisk and compressed, keeping word shapes narrow and vertical. The texture is consistent across the set, suggesting intentional distressing rather than random noise, and the slant and strong stroke endings help maintain momentum in longer phrases.