Spooky Ofva 2 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: halloween, horror titles, posters, book covers, game ui, spooky, quirky, uneasy, playful, handmade, evoke suspense, add character, themed display, hand-cut look, spiky, tapered, chiseled, irregular, jagged.
A stylized display face with a hand-cut, slightly jittery construction and tapered terminals that often end in sharp points. Strokes show subtle contrast and frequent wedge-like swelling, creating a carved or brush-cut look rather than a geometric one. Curves are rounded but asymmetrical, and many letters lean on uneven joints and off-center bowls for a purposely imperfect rhythm. Proportions vary from glyph to glyph, with narrow counters and compact lowercase forms that keep the texture dense in running lines.
Best suited for display settings where personality and atmosphere are more important than neutrality—Halloween promotions, haunted-house signage, spooky game titles, and horror-comedy posters. It can also work for short bursts of text (taglines, headers, labels) where the jagged, tapered detailing has room to read clearly.
The overall tone feels eerie and mischievous, balancing horror-tinged sharpness with a cartoonish, handcrafted charm. Its irregular edges and spike-like endings suggest tension and suspense without becoming gooey or overly grungy, making it read as “creepy-fun” rather than purely sinister.
The design appears intended to evoke a spooky, hand-crafted aesthetic through irregular stroke rhythm and sharp, tapering terminals, giving familiar letterforms an unsettling edge. By keeping the forms upright and compact while varying widths and details, it aims for expressive headline impact and a distinctive themed texture in phrases.
The uppercase has strong, poster-like silhouettes with distinctive, angular inflections, while the lowercase stays compact and simplified, helping the font maintain a consistent, bouncy texture in longer phrases. Numerals follow the same cut-out logic, with slightly exaggerated curves and pointed joins that keep them visually loud in titles.