Spooky Putu 7 is a bold, narrow, high contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, titles, halloween, album art, menacing, gritty, sinister, eerie, campy, shock value, horror tone, drip effect, handmade texture, display impact, dripping, ragged, tapered, spiky, hand-cut.
A condensed, forward-slanted display face built from heavy, irregular strokes with aggressive tapers. Letterforms are high-contrast in spirit due to abrupt shifts from chunky masses to needle-like ends and drip terminals, creating a wet, torn silhouette. Counters are uneven and often pinched, while edges look deliberately jagged rather than smooth, producing a lively, unstable rhythm across words. The numerals and capitals carry the strongest sculpted shapes, with consistent downward drips that hang below the baseline for added texture.
Best suited for short, high-impact settings such as horror-themed posters, Halloween promotions, event flyers, title cards, and packaging where texture is an advantage. It can work well on dark backgrounds with ample tracking and generous leading to keep drips from colliding. For readability, reserve it for display sizes rather than body text.
The overall tone is ominous and theatrical, evoking horror poster lettering, slime, and splatter effects. Its distressed, dripping finish reads as deliberately unclean and unsettling, leaning into a B-movie/haunted-house energy rather than refined elegance. The slant and sharp hooks add urgency and motion, reinforcing a tense, supernatural mood.
The design appears intended to simulate thick ink or paint that has been slashed on quickly and left to run, combining condensed, slanted display proportions with dramatic drip terminals. Its purpose is to deliver instant genre signaling—danger, dread, and mess—through silhouette and texture rather than typographic neutrality.
Many glyphs feature long descending spikes that extend well below the baseline, so line spacing will noticeably affect legibility and the perceived “drip” effect. Forms are intentionally inconsistent at the edges, which enhances the handmade feel but can visually accumulate into dense black texture in longer passages.