Spooky Faku 7 is a bold, wide, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, halloween promos, poster headlines, game branding, album art, menacing, gritty, chaotic, pulp, eerie, genre signaling, shock impact, grunge texture, horror styling, retro pulp, jagged, ragged, spiky, distressed, eroded.
A heavy, display-oriented serif with aggressively roughened contours and irregular, bite-like edges that create a torn-paper silhouette. Strokes are mostly vertical and stable in stance, while the perimeter is broken into sharp spikes and small notches that vary from glyph to glyph, producing a deliberately distressed rhythm. Counters are compact and often uneven, with squared-off interior corners that heighten the coarse texture. Spacing and widths feel intentionally inconsistent, reinforcing the handmade, weathered character in both uppercase and lowercase.
Best suited to large-size display work where the jagged perimeter can be appreciated: horror and thriller titling, Halloween promotions, event posters, game or streamer branding, and album/merch graphics. It can also work for short callouts or pull quotes when extra spacing is available, but it is less appropriate for long-form reading or small UI sizes where the rough texture can overwhelm letterforms.
The overall tone is ominous and abrasive, evoking danger, decay, and late-night creature-feature energy. Its sharp, gnawed outlines read as unsettling and theatrical rather than refined, pushing a sense of tension and noise into any line of text. The effect lands as vintage-horror and punk-adjacent—more “warn and provoke” than “welcome and explain.”
This design appears intended to deliver instant genre signaling through a bold silhouette and aggressively distressed edges, trading neutrality for atmosphere. The irregular, spiked erosion suggests a crafted “damaged print” look meant to feel gritty and unsettling on impact.
In paragraphs the dense texture quickly accumulates, so the distressed edge becomes the dominant visual feature; it reads best when set with generous tracking and leading. The numerals share the same torn silhouette, keeping the set cohesive for headlines and short bursts of copy.