Wacky Fekus 2 is a very light, narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, fantasy props, game ui, album art, poster headlines, unsettling, occult, hand-etched, spiky, quirky, create tension, add texture, evoke magic, look handmade, stand out, angular, scratchy, twitchy, broken serif, jagged.
A wiry, angular display face with a slanted stance and thin, high-tension strokes. Letterforms are built from straight segments and sharp corners, with irregular, thorn-like terminals and occasional broken, bracket-like serif fragments. Strokes show slight wavering and inconsistent joins that create a hand-etched, scratchy texture, while counters stay relatively open and geometric. Overall rhythm is uneven and intentionally rough, giving the alphabet a lively, unstable silhouette rather than a polished text cadence.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings where texture and attitude are the goal: horror or dark-fantasy titles, game menus and achievement screens, band or album graphics, event posters, and themed packaging. It can also work for faux-handmade ephemera (curses, maps, labels, warnings) where legibility can be secondary to mood.
The font projects a mischievous, eerie energy—part spooky scratch lettering, part DIY punk mark-making. Its prickly terminals and jittery construction suggest danger, magic, or clandestine messages, while the quirky inconsistencies keep it playful and oddball rather than purely grim.
The design appears intended to emulate a scratched, hand-carved or ink-splintered look, using controlled irregularity and thorny terminals to create a distinctive, unsettling display voice. Its uneven construction and decorative edge details prioritize character and atmosphere over neutral readability.
In the sample text, the spurs and nicks accumulate into a noisy surface that reads as texture first and typography second. Distinctive angular forms help differentiation, but the frequent spikes and fractured serif cues can visually compete with spacing in longer lines, making it feel most at home as an effect-driven display style.