Distressed Purey 9 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, streetwear, event flyers, headlines, grunge, handmade, edgy, playful, raw, handmade feel, gritty texture, diy look, expressive display, analog print, rough, scratchy, inked, uneven, textured.
A rough, marker-like display face with visibly distressed strokes and ragged edges. Letterforms are built from simple, mostly sans structures, but the outlines wobble and thicken irregularly, creating a strong handmade rhythm. Counters are often partially filled or uneven, and terminals look blunted or smeared as if drawn with a dry brush or worn felt-tip. Spacing and widths vary from glyph to glyph, reinforcing an organic, improvised texture in both uppercase and lowercase, with similarly scuffed numerals.
Best suited for short, high-impact settings where texture is an asset: posters, music and entertainment graphics, event flyers, packaging accents, and apparel or sticker-style branding. It can work for punchy subheads or pull quotes, but the heavy texture is most effective at moderate-to-large sizes.
The overall tone is gritty and informal, evoking zines, street posters, and DIY signage. Its scratchy texture reads energetic and a little unruly, balancing a playful handwritten feel with a darker, grunge edge.
The design appears intended to mimic quick hand-lettering made with a worn marker or brush, preserving natural wobble, pressure changes, and ink breakup. The goal is expressive, tactile typography that looks printed, dragged, or weathered rather than cleanly typeset.
The distressed interior texture is prominent in rounded forms (like O/Q) and contributes to a deliberately imperfect color on the page. In longer text the irregular outlines create lively sparkle, while the uneven stroke buildup can make small sizes feel busy.