Spooky Taba 2 is a very bold, normal width, medium contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: horror posters, halloween promos, album covers, game titles, thriller packaging, eerie, menacing, chaotic, grimy, punk, create tension, add texture, look hand-painted, signal danger, brushy, ragged, drippy, tapered, organic.
A heavy, brush-like display face with irregular, hand-drawn contours and frequent ink-like blobs and nicks along the edges. Strokes appear pressure-driven, with tapered starts and finishes, uneven terminals, and occasional drips that extend below the baseline, creating a gritty silhouette. The letterforms lean subtly and vary in internal spacing, producing a restless rhythm; counters are often partially closed or pinched, and curves are lumpy rather than geometric. Numerals and capitals share the same rough, painted construction, with exaggerated swashes and scratchy joins in places.
Best suited for short, attention-grabbing text such as horror and Halloween headlines, event flyers, game or film titles, and dramatic packaging callouts. It can also work for album artwork or zine-style graphics where a rough, hand-painted feel is desirable, but it’s less appropriate for small-size body copy due to its heavy texture and irregular forms.
The overall tone is dark and unsettling, with a raw, distressed energy that reads as improvised and slightly unhinged. Its smeared strokes and drip-like terminals evoke horror poster lettering and DIY punk graphics, giving text a suspenseful, haunted presence.
This font appears designed to mimic bold brush lettering that has been distressed and allowed to bleed or drip, prioritizing atmosphere and impact over refinement. The goal is to create an immediate sense of tension and grit, with expressive irregularity that keeps repeated characters from feeling too uniform.
The texture is most apparent at medium to large sizes, where the torn edges and ink pools become a deliberate feature rather than noise. Some glyphs show strong personality through asymmetry and chunky bowls, so word shapes feel lively and unpredictable in longer lines.