Wacky Obhu 3 is a very bold, very narrow, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, album art, event flyers, horror titles, spooky, chaotic, punk, bizarre, playful, shock value, thematic mood, textural display, blackletter remix, spiky, ragged, toothy, distressed, gothic.
A condensed blackletter-inspired display face built from chunky, vertical stems and tight internal counters. The contours are aggressively ragged, with serrated, thorn-like edges that create a vibrating silhouette and uneven texture along every stroke. Letterforms are mostly upright with a strong vertical rhythm, while bowls and joins are carved into narrow, slit-like apertures that emphasize a cut-out look. Despite the irregular perimeter, spacing is fairly consistent, producing a dense, patterned color across lines of text.
Best suited to short, high-impact typography such as posters, title cards, album covers, and attention-grabbing headers where texture is a feature, not a distraction. It can work for themed event materials and packaging that benefits from a rough, haunted, or punk attitude, and is most effective at medium to large sizes where the jagged detailing remains legible.
The overall tone is eerie and mischievous, mixing medieval blackletter cues with a scratchy, DIY edge. Its jagged “teeth” and noisy outline suggest horror, Halloween, and punk/metal energy, while the compact proportions give it an intense, claustrophobic punch.
The design appears intended to take blackletter structure and exaggerate it into a deliberately abrasive, serrated novelty texture. The consistent spiking and dense vertical rhythm suggest a goal of maximal character and atmosphere over neutral readability.
In the sample text, the serration creates strong sparkle and texture, especially at smaller sizes where the edge noise can dominate. Uppercase and lowercase maintain a unified, vertical stance, and numerals follow the same carved, spiky treatment, keeping the set visually cohesive.