Spooky Vake 2 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, halloween promos, game branding, poster headlines, album covers, eerie, occult, macabre, gothic, menacing, gothic revival, horror mood, dramatic impact, antique menace, themed display, spiky, ragged, angular, tapered, sharp.
A condensed, upright display face with a blackletter-inspired skeleton and aggressively angular detailing. Strokes show medium contrast with frequent tapering and thorn-like terminals, creating a cut, notched silhouette rather than smooth curves. Counters are generally tight and irregular, and many letters carry small barbs or spur-like protrusions that break the outline and add visual texture. The overall rhythm is narrow and vertical, with uneven edge quality that reads as intentionally jagged and distressed while remaining structurally consistent across caps, lowercase, and figures.
Best suited for short, high-impact settings such as horror film titles, Halloween and haunted-attraction promotions, game or streaming thumbnails, and dramatic poster headlines. It can also work for album/merch branding and themed packaging where an occult or gothic mood is desired, but is less suited to long-form reading due to its busy, jagged texture.
The font projects a dark, supernatural tone—part medieval manuscript, part horror title card. Its sharp barbs and tense verticality suggest menace and ritualistic drama, making text feel ominous and heightened even at short lengths.
The design appears intended to evoke a gothic/blackletter tradition while amplifying it with sharp, thorny distressing for a more supernatural, horror-leaning voice. Its condensed proportions and aggressive terminals prioritize immediate atmosphere and recognizability over neutrality or extended readability.
In continuous text, the dense texture and tight spacing create a strong “black mass” effect, so the design reads best when given breathing room and used at moderate-to-large sizes. The numerals and lowercase maintain the same spurred, chiseled language as the capitals, supporting consistent styling in headlines and themed labels.