Distressed Unba 16 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, album art, social graphics, handwritten, casual, expressive, gritty, playful, handmade feel, textured voice, informal display, expressive emphasis, brushy, rough, textured, slanted, organic.
A slanted, handwritten script with brush-pen construction and visibly irregular stroke edges. Forms are compact and tightly spaced, with tall ascenders/descenders and a relatively small lowercase body, giving the alphabet a lively vertical rhythm. Stroke endings are tapered and occasionally blunted, with pressure-like modulation that varies from glyph to glyph, reinforcing an improvised, drawn-on-paper feel. The character set mixes bouncy, open counters with slightly pinched joins and uneven curvature, producing a deliberately imperfect texture in both caps and lowercase.
Best suited for short, attention-grabbing settings where texture and personality are desirable: posters, punchy headlines, packaging callouts, and branding accents. It can also work for quotes or captions when set with generous leading, but the rough edges and tight proportions favor display use over long-form reading.
The overall tone is informal and energetic, like quick lettering made for emphasis rather than refinement. The roughness reads as human and a bit gritty, adding a candid, street-notes personality that feels approachable and spontaneous.
Designed to capture the immediacy of fast brush handwriting with a controlled, repeatable set of glyphs. The aim appears to be a distinctive, textured script voice that adds emphasis and character while maintaining enough consistency for multi-word display lines.
Uppercase letters behave more like gestural initials than formal caps, while the numerals keep the same handwritten momentum and slight wobble. In text, the uneven edge texture creates a consistent “ink drag” grain that becomes part of the color of the line, especially at larger sizes.