Spooky Jino 10 is a light, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, halloween promos, poster headlines, game branding, album art, eerie, sinister, witchy, macabre, unsettling, atmosphere, distress effect, handmade feel, dramatic impact, period flavor, ragged, spiky, tapered, angular, jagged.
A distressed display face with tall, condensed proportions and sharp, tapering terminals. Strokes feel hand-cut and irregular, with subtle waviness and uneven edges that create a worn, scratchy texture. Serifs and ends frequently flare into small hooks or spikes, while counters stay fairly open, helping the forms remain legible despite the roughness. Overall rhythm is narrow and vertical, with slightly inconsistent widths that add a nervous, handmade cadence.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings like horror and thriller titles, Halloween and event promotions, poster headlines, game or film branding, and cover art where atmosphere matters more than typographic neutrality. It can also work for thematic pull quotes or section headers when paired with a calmer text face.
The letterforms suggest dark folklore and nocturnal storytelling—more unsettling than playful. Its ragged spikes and ink-starved tapers evoke old spellbooks, haunted signage, and horror title cards, projecting tension and suspense.
The design appears intended to mimic hand-rendered, blade-cut or ink-worn lettering, using irregular edges and spiked terminals to communicate menace and mystery while preserving enough structure for readable display lines.
In the sample text, the texture becomes a dominant feature, especially on repeated verticals (as in m, n, h) where the rough edge and tapering terminals create a flickering, animated feel. Numerals follow the same carved, spurred logic, keeping the set stylistically cohesive for titling and short bursts of copy.