Distressed Bise 11 is a regular weight, very narrow, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, branding, packaging, apparel, album art, handmade, expressive, vintage, edgy, rustic, brush lettering, handmade texture, display impact, gritty flavor, informal script, brushy, textured, dry-brush, calligraphic, slanted.
A slanted, brush-script style with pronounced stroke contrast and a dry, textured edge that creates natural-looking breaks and rough terminals. Letterforms are compact and condensed, with tight counters and a lively, slightly irregular baseline rhythm that reads as hand-rendered rather than mechanically uniform. Connections are mostly implied rather than fully cursive, with sharp entries/exits and occasional tapered swashes that add momentum in words and headlines.
Well-suited to display uses where texture and motion are assets—posters, labels, packaging, apparel graphics, and social headers. It performs best at medium-to-large sizes where the dry-brush details and tapered endings remain clear and intentional.
The overall tone feels energetic and human, with a gritty, printed-by-hand character. Its textured strokes convey a casual, slightly rebellious warmth—more craft and street-poster than polished corporate script.
The design appears intended to mimic quick brush lettering with imperfect ink deposition, combining condensed, energetic forms with a deliberately weathered texture for expressive, attention-grabbing typography.
The texture is consistent across capitals, lowercase, and numerals, giving the set a cohesive distressed ink look. The condensed proportions and angled stress make word shapes dense and punchy, especially in mixed-case settings.