Spooky Riba 1 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, movie posters, game branding, halloween promos, album covers, menacing, chaotic, occult, gritty, dramatic, distressed effect, horror signaling, hand-inked feel, texture-first, spiky, ragged, eroded, sharp, inked.
A distressed, jagged display face built from irregular, torn-looking strokes with sharp spur-like terminals and uneven contours. The letterforms keep mostly upright construction, but their edges wobble and break, creating a hand-inked, weathered silhouette. Counters are often rough and slightly pinched, and curves feel carved rather than smooth, giving the alphabet a gritty, fractured rhythm. Numerals and punctuation follow the same eroded, spiky treatment for a consistent texture in running text.
Best used as a display font for horror titles, dark-fantasy headings, posters, and game or event branding where atmosphere matters more than pristine readability. It can work for short taglines or pull quotes when set with generous size and spacing, and pairs well with simpler body text to keep compositions legible.
The font projects an ominous, unsettling tone—like scratched lettering on stone or ink dragged across rough paper. Its aggressive spikes and distressed edges evoke horror, dark fantasy, and supernatural storytelling, with a raw, gritty energy rather than polished elegance.
The design appears intended to simulate a rough, scratched, or eroded hand-rendered look while staying recognizable and consistent across the character set. Its purpose is to deliver instant genre signaling through spiked terminals and distressed outlines, creating an immediate sense of menace and decay.
In longer lines the texture becomes a strong visual effect, with edge noise and tapered spikes creating a high-frequency pattern. The irregular silhouettes add character, but the distressed detailing can reduce clarity at small sizes, making it better suited to short bursts of text.