Distressed Ufro 9 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, social media, album art, expressive, handmade, raw, energetic, casual, handmade texture, expressive display, brush lettering, gritty accent, brushy, textured, dry-brush, gestural, slanted.
A slanted, brush-written script with quick, gestural construction and visibly dry, textured stroke edges. Letterforms are compact and tightly set, with narrow proportions and a lively, slightly uneven rhythm that preserves the feeling of hand pressure and speed. Strokes show tapered starts and finishes, occasional blunt terminals, and intermittent rough fill that reads like ink skipping on paper. Uppercase forms are simplified and tall, while the lowercase maintains a small x-height with prominent ascenders and descenders for a handwritten silhouette.
Best suited for display use such as posters, headlines, packaging callouts, and social media graphics where a handcrafted, textured script can be showcased. It also works well for branding accents, quotes, and short emphatic phrases, especially when paired with a clean sans for supporting text.
The overall tone is informal and expressive, with a gritty, handcrafted edge that feels spontaneous rather than polished. Its texture and brisk movement suggest a personal note, marker sketch, or brush lettering made in the moment, lending a bold, human presence to short text.
The design appears intended to capture the look of fast brush lettering with dry-brush texture, delivering an authentic, imperfect mark for expressive display typography. Its compact, narrow build supports impactful lines of text while keeping the handwritten energy intact.
The texture is consistent across the alphabet and numerals, creating a cohesive distressed effect that becomes more pronounced at larger sizes. Some characters show intentionally idiosyncratic shapes and stroke joins, reinforcing the handmade character over strict regularity.