Spooky Riri 3 is a regular weight, wide, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, halloween promos, game logos, movie posters, book covers, eerie, menacing, occult, dramatic, gothic, evoke dread, thematic branding, dramatic display, aged texture, spiked, tapered, ragged, thorny, blackletter-like.
A decorative serif display face with sharp, thorn-like terminals and irregular, ragged edges that read like carved or torn contours. Strokes show pronounced contrast, with thick stems paired with hairline joins and pointed finials that frequently extend into small spikes. The overall silhouette is slightly uneven and textural, while maintaining clear upright structure and familiar serif skeletons; several glyphs feature distinctive interior slashes or cuts (notably in round letters and figures), adding to the distressed, emblematic feel.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as horror or fantasy titles, chapter heads, poster typography, packaging, and logo-style wordmarks where the spiked details can be appreciated. It can also work for pull quotes or event promotions when used at larger sizes with generous tracking and leading.
The font projects a dark, supernatural tone—suggesting curses, folklore, and haunted ephemera rather than everyday readability. Its spines and daggered serifs create tension and urgency, giving words a theatrical, ominous voice suited to horror and fantasy atmospheres.
The design appears intended to merge a traditional serif/blackletter-adjacent foundation with aggressive, thorned ornamentation, creating an instantly eerie display voice. Its consistent use of spikes, cuts, and tapering aims to deliver a recognizable horror-fantasy signature in both uppercase and mixed-case text.
In paragraph-like samples, the spiky terminals and high contrast create strong patterning and a lively, jittery rhythm. The distressed details are consistent across caps, lowercase, and numerals, but the texture can visually accumulate in longer passages, making it most effective when given size and breathing room.