Distressed Ufsa 8 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, book covers, album art, packaging, handwritten, gritty, expressive, casual, indie, handmade feel, expressive display, diy texture, energetic tone, brushy, scratchy, textured, organic, tall.
A tall, right-leaning handwritten face with brush-pen construction and visibly textured edges. Strokes show moderate, natural contrast with frequent tapering and occasional blunt terminals, creating a lively, slightly uneven rhythm. Letterforms are condensed overall, with long ascenders and descenders and a notably small lowercase body, giving lines a wiry vertical emphasis. Spacing and widths vary from glyph to glyph, reinforcing an authentic hand-drawn feel while maintaining readable, consistent skeletons across the set.
Best suited to short-to-medium display text where the brush texture and narrow verticality can be appreciated—posters, headlines, cover titling, labels, and promotional graphics. It can work for pull quotes or brief captions when set with generous tracking and ample line spacing to accommodate the long extenders.
The tone is raw and human, like quick marker notes or a rough title written directly on paper. Its distressed texture and energetic slant convey urgency and attitude, balancing casual friendliness with a slightly edgy, DIY character.
The design appears intended to simulate fast, confident brush handwriting with a controlled amount of roughness, delivering an expressive display voice that feels handmade rather than polished.
The distress appears as consistent edge chatter and minor ink breakup rather than heavy erosion, so the forms stay legible at display sizes. Numerals and capitals share the same narrow, elongated proportions, helping mixed-case settings feel cohesive and poster-like.