Spooky Duba 18 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, movie titles, halloween, album covers, game titles, eerie, grungy, menacing, raw, chaotic, create tension, add texture, handmade feel, theatrical impact, brushy, ragged, blotted, torn, handmade.
A heavy, brush-like display face with irregular, jagged contours and blunt terminals that feel torn or blotted. Strokes are uneven and slightly slanted, with frequent bulges, notches, and rough edges that create a distressed silhouette rather than clean outlines. Letterforms are generally compact with large counters where present, and spacing appears intentionally inconsistent, reinforcing a handmade, unstable rhythm across words and lines.
Best suited for short, high-impact settings such as horror and thriller posters, Halloween promotions, haunted-attraction signage, and game or streaming title cards. It also fits punk/metal album art, zines, and gritty merchandise where texture and mood matter more than typographic neutrality.
The texture and aggressive edges give the font a tense, unsettling tone with a DIY, underground attitude. Its messy ink spread and scratchy perimeter read as ominous and theatrical, evoking warning signs, creepy titles, and late-night poster art.
The design appears intended to mimic fast, saturated brush lettering with deliberate distress, using ragged edges and uneven rhythm to create an eerie, hand-made presence. Its goal is to deliver immediate atmosphere and drama in display sizes rather than quiet readability in extended copy.
Uppercase forms carry strong, chunky shapes that hold up well at larger sizes, while the lowercase keeps the same rough energy and can look intentionally jittery in longer text. Numerals match the same torn-brush treatment, making them suitable for integrated headline use rather than precision-driven settings.