Spooky Abla 14 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, halloween promos, poster headlines, game ui, event flyers, eerie, occult, menacing, ritual, b-movie, create tension, handmade grit, horror texture, dramatic impact, ragged, hand-drawn, spiky, tapered, rough-edged.
This typeface uses jagged, brush-like strokes with irregular edges and frequent thorny protrusions. Terminals often taper to sharp points, and counters are uneven, giving letters a distressed, hand-rendered silhouette. The stroke texture is intentionally inconsistent—some parts swell while others pinch—creating a restless rhythm across words. Uppercase forms read as bold shapes with broken contours, while the lowercase is thinner and more wiry with tight bowls and a compact vertical footprint.
Best suited for short, high-impact text such as movie or podcast titles, haunted-house and Halloween promotions, album/track art, and game or tabletop RPG branding. It performs most convincingly at display sizes where the rough contours and pointed terminals can read clearly, and it can add character to packaging or labels meant to feel grimy or cursed.
The overall tone is ominous and theatrical, evoking hand-lettered warnings, cursed inscriptions, and gritty pulp-horror titles. Its rough texture and spiked terminals suggest tension and unease rather than refinement, leaning into a campy, supernatural atmosphere that feels immediate and dramatic.
The design appears intended to mimic quick, expressive hand lettering with deliberate wear and bite, prioritizing atmosphere over smooth regularity. Its spiky terminals and distressed outlines are tuned to create a horror-forward texture that feels handmade and slightly uncontrolled.
Spacing appears somewhat uneven by design, and the rough outlines create a lively, flickering edge that can visually “vibrate” at smaller sizes. Numerals match the distressed construction, with irregular curves and occasional hook-like terminals that keep them stylistically aligned with the letters.