Spooky Dumu 2 is a bold, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, event posters, album covers, game branding, halloween promos, eerie, sinister, macabre, occult, raw, atmosphere, shock value, gothic fusion, aged texture, display impact, jagged, ragged, chiseled, torn, distressed.
A rough-edged blackletter-inspired display face with heavy, irregular stems and sharply broken contours. Letterforms are built from chunky verticals and angular joins, but the outlines look torn or chipped, creating uneven stroke endings and small interior bites throughout. Counters are tight and often lopsided, and the overall rhythm is deliberately inconsistent, with noticeable width and silhouette variation from glyph to glyph. The texture reads like ink bleed or eroded carving, giving the type a gritty, high-impact color on the page.
Best suited for short, high-contrast display settings where the distressed texture can be appreciated—film titles, horror and metal artwork, haunted attraction materials, and themed posters or flyers. It can also work for logos and packaging that benefit from a rough gothic voice, but it’s less appropriate for long passages or small UI text where legibility is critical.
The font projects an ominous, horror-leaning tone, mixing gothic heritage with distressed, aggressive edges. Its jagged silhouettes and frayed terminals feel menacing and chaotic, evoking haunted signage, cursed manuscripts, and grindhouse title cards. The overall impression is loud, abrasive, and theatrically dark rather than refined or historical.
The design appears intended to fuse gothic/blackletter structure with a deliberately degraded surface, prioritizing atmosphere and impact over typographic regularity. Its torn contours and uneven widths suggest a goal of conveying menace and age—like weathered lettering or corrupted print—while remaining bold and attention-grabbing in headlines.
At smaller sizes the distressed contouring and tight counters can reduce clarity, while at larger sizes the irregular texture becomes a defining feature. Uppercase letters carry the strongest blackletter cues, while lowercase forms keep a simplified, gnarly structure that maintains the same shredded surface. Numerals follow the same chipped, uneven treatment and sit comfortably as display figures.