Distressed Ubki 2 is a regular weight, narrow, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, packaging, headlines, stickers, grunge, handmade, quirky, raw, playful, diy texture, hand-ink feel, worn print, expressive display, wobbly, roughened, inked, uneven, textured.
A narrow, hand-drawn roman with visibly irregular outlines and a blotchy, ink-pressed texture. Strokes show frequent waviness, small bulges, and interior voids that create a roughened edge rather than a clean contour. Curves and counters are simplified and often slightly off-round, while joins and terminals vary from glyph to glyph, reinforcing an improvised, marker-or-stamp feel. Spacing and sidebearings read intentionally uneven, producing a lively, jittery rhythm in text.
Best suited to display settings where texture is a feature: posters, covers, apparel graphics, and packaging that benefit from a handmade or distressed attitude. It can work for short bursts of text (taglines, pull quotes, labels), but the jittery outline and uneven rhythm are more effective at larger sizes than in dense reading copy.
The tone is scrappy and homemade, with a slightly mischievous, zine-like energy. Its distressed texture reads as casual and tactile, suggesting photocopy grit, worn printing, or hand-inked lettering rather than polished typography.
The design appears aimed at delivering an intentionally imperfect, distressed hand-rendered look with strong personality. It prioritizes tactile texture and expressive irregularity over uniform precision, creating a gritty, DIY voice for attention-grabbing titles.
Uppercase forms tend to feel blocky and compact, while the lowercase keeps simple, single-storey constructions and rounded bowls that maintain legibility despite the roughness. Numerals follow the same irregular inking, with visibly inconsistent stroke thickness and small gaps that add to the worn impression.