Spooky Riba 11 is a regular weight, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, halloween promo, dark fantasy, game ui, poster headlines, menacing, macabre, chaotic, witchy, grungy, scare factor, thematic branding, distressed texture, dramatic headlines, jagged, spiky, tattered, thorny, inked.
A jagged, display-oriented serif with aggressive, thorn-like terminals and heavily distressed outlines. Strokes show pronounced thick–thin shifts, with wedgey taps and torn edges that create a fragmented silhouette even in large counters. The letterforms keep an upright stance and generally traditional proportions, but the contours are intentionally irregular, giving each glyph a rough, chipped texture. Spacing reads a bit uneven by design, and the set shows noticeable per-glyph width variation, which amplifies the restless rhythm across words.
Best suited for short-to-medium display settings such as horror film titles, Halloween event materials, haunted-house signage, and dark-fantasy game branding. It can work for punchy pull quotes or menu sections when set large with generous tracking; for longer passages it’s most effective as an accent font paired with a calmer text face.
The overall tone is ominous and theatrical, evoking horror props, cursed manuscripts, and dark-fantasy signage. Sharp spikes and ragged contours create a sense of danger and decay, while the underlying serif structure keeps it legible enough to feel like a “text from another realm” rather than pure abstraction.
The design appears aimed at delivering an instantly unsettling atmosphere by combining familiar serif construction with extreme distressing, spikes, and tapered cuts. The goal is strong theme signaling at a glance—high-impact shapes that read as cursed, dangerous, and dramatic in headlines and branding.
Uppercase forms tend to feel emblematic and angular, while lowercase retains a narrow, scratchy profile that keeps lines of text animated. Numerals carry the same torn, barbed detailing, making them suitable for stylized dates and episode/issue numbering where mood matters more than neutrality.