Wacky Boma 5 is a bold, narrow, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: horror posters, halloween promos, album covers, game titles, event flyers, spooky, edgy, playful, punk, gothic, horror flavor, theatrical impact, blackletter remix, textured display, angular, chiseled, ragged, spiky, blocky.
An angular, blackletter-inspired display face built from heavy, blocky strokes with sharp chamfered corners and faceted joins. Many glyphs feature small drip-like notches and serrated terminals along the baseline and at inner corners, creating a distressed silhouette while keeping counters relatively open. The rhythm is compact with mostly straight-sided forms, occasional diagonals, and a consistent, geometric construction that reads clearly at large sizes despite the irregular edge treatment.
Best suited for short, attention-grabbing text where the jagged drip detailing can read as intentional texture—posters, headlines, packaging callouts, album art, and game or stream title cards. It works particularly well when paired with a simple sans for supporting text and when given generous tracking to keep the edge detail from visually clumping.
The font projects a spooky, mischievous tone—part haunted-house poster, part punk zine. Its dripping details and jagged edges suggest horror and Halloween theatrics, while the disciplined, chiseled structure keeps the overall feel bold and graphic rather than messy.
The design appears intended to merge a gothic/blackletter foundation with a novelty “dripping” treatment, delivering a theatrical horror flavor while preserving sturdy letterforms for bold display typography.
Capitals lean more overtly blackletter in their faceting (notably A, M, N, W), while the lowercase simplifies into sturdier, sign-like shapes with the same drip motif. Numerals follow the same angular, cut-out logic, with strong verticals and pointed terminals that maintain the display impact in mixed settings.