Spooky Abla 12 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: halloween titles, horror posters, event flyers, game ui, book covers, spooky, witchy, handmade, uneasy, folkloric, evoke unease, hand-lettered feel, add texture, seasonal theming, rough-edged, ragged, inky, tapered, irregular.
This typeface has an intentionally irregular, hand-drawn silhouette with rough, wavering outlines and subtly variable stroke thickness. Terminals often taper to soft points or blunt, brushy ends, creating a slightly melted, inked-in look without becoming fully drippy. Curves are lumpy and organic, counters are uneven, and many glyphs show a gentle lean or wobble that keeps the rhythm lively. Uppercase forms feel bold and slightly compressed in places, while the lowercase keeps a simple, readable structure with casual, imperfect joins and an overall textured edge.
Use it for display typography where atmosphere matters: Halloween and horror headlines, themed posters and flyers, packaging for seasonal products, and title treatments for games or podcasts. It can also work for short passages in themed materials when set with generous size and spacing to let the rough contours breathe.
The overall tone is eerie and storybook-like, evoking hand-lettered spellbooks, haunted signage, and vintage horror ephemera. Its rough texture and unstable contours add tension and unease while still reading as playful rather than gruesome, making it well-suited to spooky themes with a handcrafted character.
The design appears aimed at delivering a spooky, handcrafted voice by combining familiar letter skeletons with distressed, ink-worn edges and slightly warped geometry. It prioritizes mood and texture over precision, giving designers an easy way to add an unsettling, folkloric flavor to headlines and branding.
Numerals and caps maintain the same ragged edge treatment, so mixed settings feel consistent. In the text sample, the face holds together at display sizes, where the irregular stroke boundaries and tapered terminals become a defining feature rather than visual noise.