Wacky Waha 4 is a regular weight, narrow, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, horror titles, halloween, album covers, game titles, horror, grungy, spooky, chaotic, menacing, create tension, add texture, thematic display, shock impact, dripping, jagged, distressed, hand-cut, uneven.
A condensed, high-contrast display face with sharp, hand-cut contours and frequent ink-drip terminals. Strokes are predominantly straight and upright, but edges are irregular, with notches, spikes, and tapered descenders that create a scratchy silhouette. The forms keep a consistent cap height and baseline while allowing uneven widths and rough internal counters, producing a deliberately unstable rhythm across words. Numerals and lowercase follow the same distressed construction, with occasional exaggerated vertical drops that read like smeared ink.
Well suited to headlines for horror, thriller, and Halloween-themed materials, including posters, trailers, game title screens, and event promos. It can also work for album art, merch graphics, or short packaging callouts where a distressed, dripping motif is the primary visual hook. Use sparingly for body text, and pair with a clean sans or simple serif for contrast.
The overall tone is eerie and theatrical, evoking suspense, grime, and shock-value display typography. The dripping details and jagged outlines push it toward a camp-horror mood—part haunted-house signage, part DIY punk flyer—designed to feel unsettling rather than polished.
The design appears intended as a one-shot display face that prioritizes atmosphere over neutrality, using deliberate distortion and drip-like terminals to signal danger, decay, and dark humor. Its condensed stance helps create tight, impactful headlines while the irregular edge treatment supplies the signature personality.
Legibility holds up best at larger sizes where the drips and nicks read as texture rather than noise. In longer lines, the repeated downward drips add a strong vertical texture that can visually darken paragraphs and create a “hanging” baseline effect.