Spooky Tasa 7 is a very bold, narrow, very high contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: halloween, movie posters, haunted events, game titles, album covers, horror, eerie, gritty, campy, menacing, create tension, evoke slime, add texture, genre signaling, headline impact, dripping, distressed, ragged, blobby, handmade.
This display face uses heavy, compact letterforms with irregular, ragged edges and frequent drip-like terminals that extend below the baseline and from inner counters. Strokes are chunky and uneven, with abrupt cuts, nicks, and small voids that create a worn, splattered texture. The silhouettes stay mostly upright but vary noticeably in width and contour from glyph to glyph, producing an intentionally unstable rhythm. Counters are often partially occluded by interior drips, and the overall finish reads as wet ink or melting paint rather than clean geometry.
Best suited to short, high-impact text such as headlines, titles, and logos where the dripping texture can be appreciated. It works especially well for seasonal Halloween materials, horror-themed posters, haunted house flyers, game splash screens, and merchandise graphics. For longer passages, it benefits from generous size and spacing to keep counters from filling in and to preserve the distressed detail.
The font projects a classic horror mood—dark, gooey, and unsettling—while keeping a playful, poster-like immediacy. Its dripping details and rough edges evoke slime, blood, or tar, leaning into genre-cinema and haunted-attraction aesthetics. The overall tone is bold and attention-grabbing, with a gritty handcrafted edge that feels intentionally imperfect.
The design is clearly intended to simulate a dripping, melting application of ink or paint, translating horror iconography into a bold display alphabet. Its uneven contours and interior drips prioritize atmosphere and texture over neutrality, aiming for immediate thematic recognition and punchy headline presence.
Spacing appears tight and the texture is dense, so the drips and rough edges visually connect quickly at smaller sizes. Numerals and lowercase follow the same distressed logic, helping mixed-case lines keep a consistent, grimy color on the page.