Wacky Obbu 7 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: halloween, horror titles, party flyers, posters, packaging, spooky, slimy, campy, macabre, playful, create horror mood, add texture, grab attention, themed display, dripping, blobby, ragged, cartoonish, tacky.
This typeface uses heavy, compact letterforms with rounded, swollen contours and irregular, dripping terminals that hang from stems, bowls, and serifs. The silhouette reads as a distressed slab/blackletter hybrid: sturdy verticals and bracket-like feet are paired with softened corners and lumpy edges, creating a deliberately messy rhythm. Counters are generally open but uneven, and the baseline is visually animated by frequent droplet-like descenders and notches. Numerals and capitals maintain the same gooey treatment, keeping a consistent texture across the set while allowing noticeable per-glyph irregularity.
Best suited for short headlines and graphic display applications such as Halloween promotions, horror-comedy titles, event posters, themed packaging, stickers, and social media graphics where texture and personality are more important than long-form readability.
The overall tone is spooky-fun rather than serious—evoking horror props, haunted-house signage, monster-movie titles, and Halloween ephemera. Its drips and wobble give it a tactile, messy energy that feels campy and theatrical, leaning more toward playful macabre than genuine menace.
The design appears intended to deliver an instantly recognizable slime/drip effect while preserving familiar, sturdy letter skeletons for quick headline recognition. It prioritizes character and atmosphere through irregular contours and hanging terminals, creating a memorable decorative voice for themed display work.
The dense black shapes and textured edges create strong impact at display sizes, but the distressed “drip” detailing can visually fill in when used small or with tight spacing. The sample text shows a lively, uneven pattern across words, where the irregular terminals become a prominent graphic texture.