Spooky Vake 5 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, titles, album art, horror branding, game graphics, ominous, gothic, menacing, occult, vintage, horror tone, gothic revival, distressed texture, headline impact, spiky, jagged, thorny, blackletter, angular.
A condensed, blackletter-influenced display face built from narrow vertical stems and sharply notched terminals. Strokes show medium contrast with pointed tapers and irregular, thorn-like protrusions that create a distressed silhouette while keeping letterforms mostly upright and structured. Counters are compact and often faceted, with broken-looking joins and aggressive interior bites that give the glyphs a carved, weathered feel. Spacing and widths vary slightly by character, adding a restless rhythm in text while maintaining a consistent sharp-edged texture across capitals, lowercase, and numerals.
Best suited to posters, title sequences, album/track artwork, and horror or dark-fantasy branding where a jagged gothic voice is desired. It also works well for event flyers, haunted attraction signage, and game UI headings when used sparingly and set large for impact.
The font projects an ominous, ritualistic tone—part medieval gothic, part horror title card. Its spikes and torn edges suggest danger and decay, lending a haunted, adversarial energy that reads as dramatic rather than playful.
The design appears intended to deliver a blackletter-inspired horror mood while remaining typesettable for modern display use. Its condensed build and consistent verticality support bold headlines, while the distressed spikes and notches provide the signature eerie texture that defines the face.
At larger sizes the silhouette texture becomes the main feature, producing a dense, bristling word shape. In longer lines the frequent sharp terminals and tight interiors can reduce clarity, so the strongest results come from short phrases and emphatic settings with generous size and breathing room.