Distressed Urbo 15 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, book covers, packaging, labels, headlines, rustic, handmade, vintage, casual, lively, hand-lettered look, aged texture, expressive display, casual branding, brushy, textured, inked, bouncy, irregular.
A slanted, brush-pen style script with textured, broken edges and a visibly inked stroke that varies in thickness. Letterforms mix print-like clarity with cursive movement, producing a lively rhythm and uneven baseline bounce. Counters are often partially closed or roughened, and terminals taper or fray as if from dry brush or worn printing. Caps are tall and assertive, while the lowercase keeps compact bodies with occasional long ascenders/descenders, creating a varied, hand-rendered color in text.
Best suited for display settings where texture and personality are assets: posters, titles, branding marks, labels, and packaging that want a hand-brushed, timeworn look. It can work for short bursts of text such as pull quotes or section headers, while longer passages may feel busy due to the deliberate roughness and animated rhythm.
The overall tone feels handmade and weathered, like signage or packaging stamped or brushed in ink and then distressed by time. Its energetic slant and imperfect contours read as informal, crafty, and slightly rebellious rather than polished or corporate.
The design appears intended to emulate quick brush lettering captured with imperfect ink coverage and then lightly distressed, balancing legibility with expressive, handmade character. It aims to deliver a ready-made vintage/DIY voice without requiring custom lettering.
Spacing appears naturally irregular, with some letters narrowing or widening to fit their drawn gestures, reinforcing an organic texture across words. Numerals follow the same inked, roughened construction, maintaining consistency with the alphabet in both stroke feel and edge wear.