Wacky Yahy 2 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, horror titles, game titles, book covers, event flyers, spooky, grungy, quirky, hand-cut, storybook, add texture, evoke gothic, create atmosphere, signal handmade, stand out, rough-edged, spiky, ink-worn, decorative, textured.
A distressed, decorative serif with jagged, chipped contours and uneven terminals that create a hand-cut, worn-ink silhouette. Strokes keep a mostly steady thickness while edges wobble and break, producing a deliberately rough texture across both straight stems and curved bowls. Serifs read as sharp and thorny rather than bracketed, and counters are compact, giving the letters a slightly cramped, antique rhythm. Uppercase forms feel sturdy and emphatic, while lowercase maintains a smaller x-height and adds extra irregularity in joins and serifs.
Best suited to display settings where texture and personality are the point: posters, title cards, packaging, game UI headings, and themed event graphics. It can work for short bursts of text (taglines, pull quotes), but the heavy edge noise and compact counters may reduce clarity at small sizes or in dense paragraphs.
The overall tone is eerie and playful at once—suggesting gothic or Halloween flavor without becoming fully traditional blackletter. Its roughness and spiked details evoke aged print, folk horror, and quirky fantasy, making text feel atmospheric and slightly mischievous.
The design appears intended to deliver an intentionally imperfect, vintage-meets-macabre look—like type stamped, carved, or printed under rough conditions. It prioritizes atmosphere and character over neutrality, giving designers a quick route to spooky, offbeat display typography.
The texture is consistent across the set, with frequent nicks and notches that will visually accumulate in longer passages. Numerals follow the same battered, spiky treatment, helping headings and short callouts keep a unified character.