Spooky Vawe 3 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, halloween promos, game branding, poster headlines, album covers, haunted, menacing, occult, gothic, archaic, genre signaling, eerie texture, aged feel, dramatic display, spiky, ragged, tapered, thorny, inked.
A decorative serif with jagged, thorn-like terminals and irregular, slightly ragged contours that mimic distressed ink edges. Strokes show noticeable tapering into sharp points, with uneven serifs that read as hooked and blade-like rather than bracketed or geometric. Bowls are generally rounded but subtly warped, and counters stay fairly open despite the roughened perimeter. Uppercase forms are broad and commanding, while the lowercase sits shorter with compact proportions and a lively, inconsistent rhythm that reinforces the hand-wrought feel.
This font is best suited to display work where atmosphere matters: horror and thriller titling, Halloween and haunted-attraction promotion, game and streaming graphics, and dramatic poster or cover headlines. It performs especially well in short phrases, logos, and section headers where its spiky details can remain clear.
The letterforms project an ominous, supernatural tone—more cursed manuscript than clean blackletter—combining medieval cues with horror-style sharpness. The spurs and spikes add a sense of danger and tension, giving text a theatrical, spooky presence even at moderate sizes.
The design appears intended to deliver immediate genre signaling through aggressive terminals, distressed outlines, and an archaic serif framework—creating a readable but intentionally unsettling display texture for themed typography.
In text settings, the pointed terminals and distressed edges create strong texture and a flickering rhythm across lines. Numerals follow the same sharp, stylized construction, with angled cuts and hooked ends that keep the set visually consistent with the letters.