Spooky Maki 7 is a very bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: halloween, horror posters, movie titles, event flyers, game ui, ominous, grungy, campy, macabre, playful, themed display, horror effect, high impact, novelty branding, dripping, distressed, blobby, rounded, ragged.
A heavy, rounded sans with solid, compact silhouettes and a consistent drip-and-erosion treatment along terminals and lower edges. Strokes stay largely monolinear in feel, with softened corners and bulbous counters that keep the forms readable despite the texture. The distressed detailing varies slightly per glyph, creating an uneven, organic baseline and a wet-ink look while maintaining clear, simple letter construction and straightforward proportions.
Best suited to display settings such as Halloween promotions, haunted attraction signage, horror-comedy titles, streaming thumbnails, and game or party-event graphics. It can also work for short bursts of text—headlines, labels, or callouts—where the dripping texture can be appreciated without overwhelming readability.
The overall tone is horror-leaning and theatrical, evoking slime, blood drips, and gooey shadows. It reads as intentionally camp and graphic rather than subtle, delivering a bold scare-factor that still feels fun and approachable for seasonal or entertainment contexts.
The design appears intended to deliver an instantly recognizable dripping-horror motif on top of a bold, legible sans structure. Its consistent texture and chunky forms prioritize impact and silhouette recognition for themed headlines and branding moments.
The drip texture is strongest on bottoms and some outer curves, producing a lively rhythm in lines of text and a distinctive silhouette at display sizes. Because the texture adds visual noise, spacing and line breaks will matter for clarity in longer passages, but the underlying letterforms remain sturdy and stable.