Wacky Itse 10 is a regular weight, normal width, low contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, game titles, horror themes, comic covers, feral, edgy, mischievous, chaotic, comic, shock value, dramatic titles, handmade grit, fantasy tone, rebellious texture, spiky, angular, shardlike, jagged, runic.
A sharp, shard-built display face with aggressive triangular cuts, needle-like terminals, and a hand-carved, irregular rhythm. Strokes behave like torn wedges rather than smooth pen curves, creating uneven joins and sudden angle changes throughout. The slant and lively baseline give it a restless forward motion, while counters are small and often pinched into diamonds or narrow apertures. Lowercase forms are compact and idiosyncratic, with simplified structures and a notably small x-height relative to tall, spiky ascenders/descenders.
Best suited to headline-driven applications such as posters, cover art, title cards, and in-game UI headings where a spiky, eccentric voice is desired. It also fits event promos, Halloween or horror-themed graphics, and short packaging or sticker slogans where texture and attitude matter more than long-form readability.
The overall tone is wild and theatrical—part graffiti, part fantasy scrawl—with an intentionally unruly energy. It reads as playful but menacing, suggesting mischief, danger, and pulp-style drama rather than refinement or neutrality.
The design appears intended to evoke a scratchy, carved, or improvised lettering style with maximum personality—prioritizing dramatic silhouettes, sharp motion, and a deliberately irregular cadence over typographic restraint.
Legibility drops quickly as size decreases because many letters rely on similar angular motifs and tight internal spaces. The most successful settings are short bursts of text where the texture and silhouette do the work, rather than extended reading.