Spooky Ofba 1 is a light, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: halloween posters, horror titles, game titles, book covers, event flyers, eerie, occult, handmade, uneasy, folkloric, spooky display, hand-lettered feel, distressed texture, poster impact, rough, ragged, wobbly, tapered, inked.
A hand-drawn display face with irregular, ink-like strokes and subtly chiseled edges. Letterforms show intentional wobble and uneven stroke endings, with frequent tapering and small nicks that create a distressed silhouette. Curves are slightly lumpy rather than geometric, counters are open and organic, and proportions vary from glyph to glyph, reinforcing an unpolished, human-made rhythm. The overall texture reads like a marker or brush rendered with dry edges, producing lively black shapes without heavy density.
Best suited to display settings where texture and mood are more important than typographic neutrality: posters, titles, packaging, seasonal promos, haunted attractions, and game/film key art. It also works well for short quotes, chapter headings, and labels that benefit from a handmade spooky tone.
The font conveys an eerie, storybook darkness—suggesting curses, old manuscripts, and spooky signage rather than modern horror gore. Its jagged terminals and uneven contours create a faintly unsettling tone that feels playful yet ominous, like a Halloween hand-lettered title or a folk-horror poster.
The design appears intended to simulate hand-lettered, slightly distressed strokes—balancing legibility with roughness to deliver a spooky theme without relying on extreme dripping or illegible distortion.
Capitals are assertive and irregular, while lowercase keeps a casual handwritten cadence, helping mixed-case text feel animated. The numerals and punctuation maintain the same rough, tapered treatment, which makes the texture consistent in short lines and headings, but visually busy at small sizes or in long paragraphs.