Spooky Riba 3 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, halloween promos, poster headlines, game branding, album covers, menacing, macabre, eerie, gritty, chaotic, evoke fear, add texture, create impact, themed display, spiky, ragged, tapered, inked, distressed.
A jagged, distressed display face built from narrow, upright letterforms with sharp, thorn-like protrusions and irregular, torn edges. Strokes show frequent tapering and pointed terminals, creating a chiseled silhouette with uneven contours that feel hand-rendered rather than mechanically clean. Curves are roughened and slightly lumpy, counters stay relatively open for the style, and spacing is moderate, producing a jittery rhythm across words while maintaining recognizable, consistent glyph structures.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as horror film titles, Halloween promotions, haunted attraction signage, game or event branding, and poster headlines. It works well when the texture can be seen clearly—on covers, logos, and large display type—rather than in long passages or small UI text.
The overall tone is ominous and theatrical, evoking horror signage, cursed manuscripts, and Halloween-era ephemera. Its aggressive spikes and ragged texture suggest danger and unease, with a gritty, splattered-ink energy that reads as deliberately unsettling rather than playful.
The design appears intended to deliver an instantly “cursed” or threatening atmosphere through serrated outlines, tapered spikes, and a rough inked texture. It prioritizes mood and silhouette over typographic neutrality, aiming for attention-grabbing display use where an eerie, distressed voice is central to the message.
Uppercase forms tend to feel more monumental and sign-like, while lowercase maintains the same serrated texture with slightly softer proportions, helping text samples stay readable at larger sizes. Numerals follow the same distressed language, with pointed hooks and uneven edges that visually match the alphabet in headings and short numeric callouts.