Spooky Riba 10 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, halloween promos, game ui, film posters, album covers, menacing, occult, grungy, gothic, chaotic, evoke fear, add texture, create drama, thematic display, spiky, ragged, jagged, thorny, tattered.
This typeface uses sharp, thorn-like terminals and heavily distressed contours that make each glyph look carved or torn from rough material. Strokes are mostly upright with a moderately uneven edge treatment, creating a lively, irregular silhouette while maintaining recognizable letterforms. The shapes mix angular cuts with occasional rounded bowls, and counters tend to be tight and dark, emphasizing a dense color in text. Overall spacing feels slightly uneven by design, and the width varies from glyph to glyph, contributing to a handmade, unsettling rhythm.
Best suited for display applications such as horror-themed titles, Halloween and haunted-attraction promotions, game titles or UI accents, and poster work where texture is desirable. It performs especially well for short bursts of text—headlines, logos, chapter cards, and packaging—where the distressed details can be appreciated without compromising readability.
The overall tone is ominous and theatrical, with a horror-and-mysticism flavor that reads as cursed, ritualistic, and slightly chaotic. The aggressive spikes and ragged edges create tension and urgency, making even simple words feel foreboding and dramatic.
The design appears intended to deliver an instantly spooky, supernatural impression through distressed stroke edges and pointed, predatory terminals, while keeping the underlying skeleton familiar enough for quick reading. The irregular texture suggests an aim for a hand-wrought, weathered look rather than a clean, geometric finish.
At text sizes, the heavy distressing and tight counters can reduce clarity, while at display sizes the serrated edges and pointed terminals become the main visual feature. Numerals and capitals share the same jagged vocabulary, helping headings and short phrases feel cohesive across mixed character sets.