Spooky Riba 6 is a regular weight, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, halloween promos, game titles, album covers, poster headlines, sinister, menacing, occult, chaotic, grim, create menace, add texture, evoke horror, amplify drama, title impact, spiky, ragged, thorny, eroded, angular.
A jagged, distressed display face built from sharp wedges and torn contours, with frequent thorn-like protrusions along stems and bowls. Strokes taper abruptly into needle points, creating a high-contrast silhouette where thick masses break into thin spikes at terminals and joins. Curves are irregular and chiseled rather than smooth, and counters often feel pinched or nicked, producing an intentionally unstable rhythm across words. Uppercase forms are narrow and aggressive, while lowercase retains the same serrated edge language with slightly softer, more compact proportions; figures follow the same carved, uneven texture.
Best suited for short, high-impact settings such as horror and thriller titles, Halloween advertising, dark-fantasy game UI/title screens, album/track artwork, and event posters. It performs strongest at headline sizes where the serrations and tapering terminals can be appreciated without compromising legibility, and it can also work for logos or wordmarks that aim for a deliberately unsettling, spiked aesthetic.
The overall tone is ominous and hostile, evoking horror titles, dark fantasy iconography, and occult or haunted atmospheres. Its sharp, torn edges and needle terminals suggest danger and tension, giving even neutral phrases a threatening, ritualistic feel.
The design appears intended to mimic torn ink, carved bone, or thorny silhouettes—prioritizing a dramatic, threatening outline over smooth text rhythm. It is built to inject atmosphere instantly, turning simple typography into a visual prop for eerie, high-intensity themes.
The texture is consistent across the character set, so the font reads as a cohesive ‘shredded’ system rather than sporadic grunge. At smaller sizes the thin spikes and interior nicks can visually merge, while at larger sizes the dramatic silhouettes and negative-space bite marks become a key feature.