Spooky Risu 9 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, halloween promos, poster headlines, game branding, album art, haunted, ominous, gothic, ritual, thriller, genre signaling, dramatic display, gothic revival, shock impact, atmosphere, blackletter, angular, spiked, dripping, sharp.
A condensed blackletter-inspired display face with angular stems, pointed terminals, and broken, faceted joins that echo metal-cut or chiseled construction. Vertical strokes dominate, with modest contrast and crisp inner counters that stay legible despite the tight proportions. Many terminals extend into thin, irregular dagger-like drips below the baseline, creating a distressed silhouette while maintaining consistent stroke logic across caps, lowercase, and numerals.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as horror film titles, Halloween event promotions, haunted attraction signage, game UI headers, and album/merch graphics. It performs well when given room to breathe, where the drips and sharp counters can remain distinct against busy backgrounds.
The overall tone is dark and theatrical, combining medieval gothic structure with horror styling. The icicle-like drips and spikes add a sense of menace and decay, making the text feel unsettling and dramatic rather than ornamental or friendly.
The design appears intended to merge classic gothic letterforms with a deliberately unsettling, dripping finish—delivering immediate genre signaling while keeping the underlying construction disciplined enough for readable display lines.
Caps read as stately and architectural, while the lowercase retains the same fractured blackletter rhythm, producing strong texture in paragraphs of display-sized text. Numerals follow the same pointed, tapering treatment, helping the set feel cohesive in titles and date-based graphics.