Spooky Ofma 4 is a regular weight, very narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, game logos, event posters, album covers, book covers, eerie, gothic, sinister, ritual, antique, evoke folklore, create tension, blackletter revival, dramatic display, themed branding, blackletter, spiky, tapered, ragged, calligraphic.
A condensed, slanted display face with a blackletter-inspired skeleton and sharp, blade-like terminals. Strokes show a calligraphic logic with tapered joins and occasional swelling, producing a lively rhythm despite the narrow set. Counters are tight and angular, and many letters end in hooked or thorny points that create a ragged silhouette along baselines and caps. Overall texture is dark and emphatic, with uneven details that read like cut quills or chipped metal rather than smooth pen curves.
Best suited to short, attention-grabbing settings where texture and mood matter more than long-form readability: horror or fantasy title treatments, game and film branding, Halloween and nightlife posters, album artwork, and dramatic chapter or section headings. It can also work as a decorative accent paired with a calmer text face to preserve legibility.
The letterforms project an ominous, old-world atmosphere—suggesting grim folklore, haunted ephemera, and ritual signage. Its spurs and hooked endings add a threatening energy, while the blackletter cues bring a sense of historical weight and superstition.
The design appears intended to fuse blackletter heritage with exaggerated spikes and hooked terminals to heighten tension and theatricality. By keeping the forms condensed and consistently slanted, it aims for a tight, aggressive word shape that reads quickly at display sizes while delivering a strongly atmospheric tone.
The uppercase carries the strongest blackletter character, while the lowercase remains similarly sharp but more streamlined, keeping the line of text energetic and prickly. Numerals follow the same pointed, calligraphic styling, maintaining consistency for titles that mix letters and numbers.