Spooky Hily 2 is a light, normal width, high contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, posters, game ui, album art, halloween promos, ominous, ritual, chaotic, handmade, eerie, evoke dread, handmade texture, occult flavor, dramatic display, brushy, ragged, tapered, spiky, blotty.
A jagged, brush-drawn display face with sharply tapered terminals and irregular, ink-like edges. Strokes show pronounced contrast and frequent thinning into hairline tips, with occasional blunt, blotted joins that read like dry-brush pressure changes. The letterforms lean with a calligraphic slant and vary in width and stroke behavior, producing a restless rhythm. Counters are often pinched or asymmetrical, and many glyphs end in hooky, claw-like flicks that amplify the rough, hand-rendered texture.
Works best at display sizes where the rough edges and sharp terminals can read clearly—titles, posters, packaging, and key art for horror or dark-fantasy themes. It can also support short UI labels or chapter headers in games or immersive experiences, but long passages will feel intentionally noisy and should be used sparingly.
The overall tone feels like hurried spellwork or scratched markings—tense, unsettling, and theatrical. Its spurs, spikes, and uneven inking suggest danger and decay rather than refinement, making it well suited to eerie, supernatural, or macabre storytelling.
The design appears intended to emulate expressive brush lettering with distressed, blade-like endings, prioritizing atmosphere over uniformity. Its controlled slant and consistent roughening suggest a deliberate, stylized approach to creating an unsettling, hand-made voice.
In continuous text the texture becomes highly prominent: narrow internal spaces and aggressive tapers create a vibrating silhouette, while uneven character widths and irregular baselines add to the unstable, improvised feel. Numerals and capitals maintain the same scratchy, ink-worn treatment, keeping the set visually cohesive.