Spooky Vame 3 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, halloween, game branding, poster headlines, book covers, eerie, gothic, occult, antique, storybook, evoke dread, add drama, themed display, antique flavor, hand-cut look, spiky serifs, tapered, angular, rough-hewn, calligraphic.
A decorative serif with sharp, wedge-like terminals and irregular, knife-cut serifs that create a pricked silhouette. Strokes show moderate contrast with tapered joins and pointed corners, giving many letters a carved, inked-with-a-pen feel rather than a purely geometric build. The rhythm is lively and slightly uneven: bowls and stems vary subtly in width, and several characters feature inward notches and hooked endings. Lowercase forms keep a compact body with small counters and distinctive, spurred ascenders and descenders, while numerals echo the same barbed terminals and narrow, vertical emphasis.
Best suited to headlines and short phrases where its spiky detailing can be appreciated—movie or podcast titles, Halloween promotions, haunted-attraction posters, tabletop RPG materials, and game or band branding. It can also work for chapter heads or pull quotes in themed editorial design when set with generous size and spacing.
The overall tone is ominous and theatrical, evoking gothic signage, horror title cards, and folklore ephemera. Its spurs and thorny serifs suggest menace and mystery, while the slightly handmade texture reads as aged, arcane, and ritualistic rather than clean or modern.
The letterforms appear designed to deliver an immediate supernatural or macabre atmosphere through thorn-like serifs, tapered strokes, and a deliberately irregular, carved aesthetic. The intent is impact and character over neutrality, prioritizing a haunted, antiquarian voice for display typography.
In text, the pointed terminals and tight apertures create a dark, high-impact texture that favors display sizes. The design maintains consistent styling across capitals, lowercase, and figures, with especially dramatic diagonals and hooked strokes that help words look animated and uncanny.