Spooky Tasa 5 is a very bold, normal width, high contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: halloween, posters, titles, logos, packaging, horror, slimy, campy, menacing, playful, thematic impact, horror cue, slime effect, poster display, seasonal branding, dripping, ragged, blobby, irregular, ink-like.
A heavy display face with rounded, swollen letterforms and irregular, ink-like contours. Many strokes terminate in elongated drips and torn-looking edges, creating a wet, melting silhouette while keeping the core shapes broadly legible. Counters are generally compact and rounded, and the overall rhythm is intentionally uneven, with small variations in stem thickness and edge texture that read like hand-inked forms rather than mechanical geometry.
Best used at headline sizes for Halloween promotions, haunted house or horror-event posters, spooky title cards, and game or comic graphics. It can also work for themed packaging or labels where an ooze/melt motif reinforces the concept. For readability, it performs strongest in short bursts (titles, badges, and calls-to-action) rather than long paragraphs.
The dripping terminals and ragged silhouettes immediately evoke classic horror and “creature feature” poster typography. The tone feels spooky and gooey, but with a playful, B-movie sensibility rather than grim realism. Its bold massing and theatrical texture create a loud, attention-grabbing mood suited to scares, stunts, and seasonal spectacle.
The design appears intended to mimic thick, wet ink or slime pooling at the bottoms of strokes, delivering an immediate horror cue while keeping the underlying letter construction recognizable. Its emphasis on bold silhouettes and theatrical texture suggests it was built for impact-first display typography that communicates theme at a glance.
The drips vary in length and placement across glyphs, creating lively texture in headlines but also adding visual noise at smaller sizes. Numerals and caps carry the same melt effect, helping maintain a consistent theme across alphanumerics, and the punctuation shown inherits the same distressed, dripping character.