Spooky Tabo 10 is a bold, normal width, high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, horror titles, halloween, packaging, game ui, eerie, playful, grungy, gooey, handmade, create tension, add texture, hand-ink effect, thematic display, dripping, blobby, inked, ragged, irregular.
A heavy, brush-ink display face with swollen strokes, ragged edges, and frequent drip-like terminals. Counters are uneven and organic, with occasional pinholes and cut-ins that feel like wet ink pooling and tearing. The silhouette varies from glyph to glyph, creating a bouncy rhythm and a slightly unstable baseline/curve energy, while still keeping forms broadly legible. Numerals and capitals share the same thick, blotted construction, with rounded joins and sporadic sharp flicks where the stroke thins into a taper.
Best suited to large sizes where the drips, blobs, and counter shapes can be appreciated—film or event posters, Halloween promotions, haunted-house signage, game titles, and spooky packaging or stickers. It can also work as an accent font in short bursts (pull quotes, badges, thumbnails) when paired with a calmer text face.
The overall tone reads spooky and mischievous rather than purely menacing—like slime, tar, or fresh paint used for a horror-comic title card. Its irregularity and drips add a sense of unease and immediacy, suggesting something handmade, messy, and alive.
The design appears intended to mimic thick, wet brush lettering with a horror-flavored, dripping finish, prioritizing atmosphere and texture over strict typographic regularity. It aims for immediate impact and theme signaling in display contexts.
Texture is conveyed through edge chatter, internal voids, and small nicks that simulate ink breakup. Spacing appears intentionally inconsistent to heighten the hand-rendered feel, which adds character in headlines but can look chaotic in long passages.