Spooky Wahu 7 is a regular weight, wide, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, halloween promos, game ui, poster headlines, book covers, eerie, menacing, occult, mischievous, dramatic, genre signaling, shock impact, handmade feel, display texture, angular, tapered, spiky, calligraphic, irregular.
A stylized display face built from sharp wedges and tapered strokes, with pointed terminals and occasional hooked or blade-like crossbars. Curves are chunky but interrupted by sudden angles, giving many letters a carved, cut-paper feel rather than smooth penmanship. Stroke thickness varies within each glyph, with narrow hairline tips and heavier bowls, while spacing and letter widths feel intentionally uneven for a restless rhythm. The lowercase has a notably small x-height and tall, narrow ascenders/descenders, and the figures follow the same jagged, asymmetrical construction.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as horror and thriller titles, Halloween event promotion, game splash screens, poster headlines, and cover typography. It can also work for signage or packaging that wants a spooky, handcrafted bite, especially at larger sizes where the tapered details and jagged counters remain clear.
The overall tone is sinister and theatrical, evoking horror titles, occult signage, and haunted-house ephemera. Its spurs and knife-like tapers add tension and motion, reading as playful-but-threatening rather than elegant or neutral. The uneven widths and sharp silhouettes reinforce an unsettling, hand-wrought mood.
The design appears intended to deliver immediate genre signaling through sharp, tapering forms and irregular rhythm, creating a deliberately unsettling display texture. It prioritizes silhouette and atmosphere over neutrality, using consistent spikes, hooks, and wedge joins to feel cohesive across a full alphanumeric set.
The font maintains a consistent language of pointed terminals and abrupt direction changes across caps, lowercase, and numerals, which helps it hold together in longer lines. At text sizes the spurs and internal angles become a prominent texture, so readability is strongest when given room and contrast.