Spooky Dage 13 is a very bold, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: horror posters, halloween, game titles, album covers, event flyers, menacing, campy, grungy, chaotic, comic, create tension, add texture, signal horror, headline impact, jagged, torn, chiseled, uneven, inked.
A heavy, all-caps-led display face with chunky silhouettes and aggressively irregular outlines. Strokes are thick but cut through with sharp notches, gouges, and torn-looking edges that create high-contrast facets within each letterform. Counters are small and often angular, terminals end in points or blunt breaks, and curves look carved rather than smoothly drawn. Spacing and widths vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, adding a jittery rhythm that reads like hand-cut shapes rather than a geometric construction.
Best suited to short, high-impact setting such as titles, posters, packaging, and promotional graphics where the rough edges can read as deliberate texture. It’s especially effective for seasonal or themed applications—haunted attractions, spooky events, and game or comic-style headlines—rather than extended small-size body text.
The overall tone is ominous and theatrical, mixing horror energy with a playful, B-movie sensibility. Its ragged texture and spiked breaks suggest danger, decay, and mischief, making text feel loud, immediate, and slightly chaotic rather than refined.
The design appears intended to deliver an instantly recognizable distressed horror mood through exaggerated weight, jagged breaks, and irregular widths. The consistent rough-cut detailing across caps, lowercase, and figures suggests a focus on expressive display typography that prioritizes atmosphere and impact over neutrality.
In longer lines the rough contours create a dense, noisy texture, so the design works best when it can breathe. The numerals and lowercase follow the same torn, angular logic, keeping a consistent distressed voice across the set.