Distressed Bufa 1 is a bold, narrow, high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
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A rough brush-style display face with heavy, rounded letterforms and visibly uneven stroke edges. Shapes are built from broad, painted strokes that taper and blob unpredictably, creating a dry-brush texture and occasional interior speckling. Counters are generally small and irregular, terminals are blunt, and curves feel hand-drawn rather than mechanically smooth. Spacing reads loosely consistent but organically variable, with each glyph carrying slight wobble and width fluctuation that reinforces the handmade construction.
Best suited to short, high-impact text where texture is an advantage: posters, punchy headlines, product packaging, labels, stickers, and merchandise graphics. It can also work for social media graphics and event promos where a handmade, distressed voice helps differentiate the message. For longer passages, the dense weight and rough edges may feel heavy, so it’s strongest in display roles.
The overall tone is informal and energetic, with a worn, crafty grit that feels like marker or paint on rough paper. Its irregular texture adds attitude and a slightly rebellious, DIY character, balancing friendliness with rawness rather than polish.
Likely designed to mimic expressive hand-painted lettering with a deliberately imperfect, distressed finish. The goal appears to be a bold, approachable display voice that feels handcrafted and tactile, emphasizing personality and texture over typographic refinement.
Uppercase forms are compact and chunky with simplified geometry, while the lowercase introduces more cursive influence in several letters (notably those with loops and descenders), adding a mixed hand-lettered feel. Numerals are similarly brush-built and legible, with the same rough perimeter and weighty presence. The texture becomes more apparent at larger sizes, where edge breakup and stroke variation read as a deliberate distressed effect.