Distressed Buto 10 is a bold, narrow, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, apparel, packaging, headlines, social ads, energetic, handmade, urban, casual, expressive, handmade feel, gritty impact, display emphasis, street energy, brushy, roughened, textured, slanted, dynamic.
A slanted brush-script style with thick, pressure-driven strokes and tapered terminals that emulate a loaded marker or dry brush. Letterforms are compact and slightly condensed, with lively stroke modulation and a consistent rightward lean. Edges show purposeful roughness and intermittent texture, creating a worn, printed-and-reprinted look rather than clean vector outlines. Counters are relatively tight and forms favor simplified, single-stroke constructions with occasional angular breaks, keeping the rhythm fast and punchy across both uppercase and lowercase.
Best suited for short to medium-length display settings such as posters, album/cover art, event promotions, packaging callouts, apparel graphics, and social media headlines. It can also work for punchy pull quotes or section headers when you want an expressive, handcrafted contrast against a cleaner text face.
The overall tone is informal and high-energy, with a streetwise, hand-painted character. Its distressed texture adds grit and spontaneity, suggesting motion and immediacy rather than polish. It reads as bold and confident, suited to messaging that wants to feel human, direct, and a little rebellious.
The design appears intended to capture the speed and personality of hand-lettered brush writing while adding a distressed finish for extra grit and impact. It prioritizes expressive gesture and texture over pristine regularity, aiming for strong visual presence in display typography.
Uppercase and lowercase share the same brush logic, giving mixed-case settings a cohesive, handwritten flow. Numerals follow the same textured stroke behavior and slant, helping headings and callouts remain stylistically consistent. The texture and compact spacing can visually fill in at smaller sizes, so it benefits from generous size and breathing room.