Spooky Kivi 2 is a regular weight, narrow, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, poster design, book covers, game branding, halloween promos, eerie, handmade, gritty, occult, dramatic, atmosphere, handmade texture, dramatic impact, unease, brushy, ragged, tapered, jagged, inked.
A rough, hand-rendered display face with brush-like strokes and pronounced thick–thin modulation. Letterforms lean consistently and feel written rather than constructed, with irregular contours, torn-looking edges, and sharp, tapering terminals that sometimes hook or flick outward. Counters are small and uneven, curves are slightly lumpy, and spacing varies from glyph to glyph, contributing to an animated, unsettled rhythm. Numerals and capitals share the same distressed, inked texture and expressive stroke endings.
Best suited for display settings where texture and atmosphere are the priority: horror or thriller titles, posters, book covers, and event promotions. It can work for short emphatic phrases, credits, or chapter heads, and is most effective when given room to breathe and set at larger sizes to preserve the distressed details.
The overall tone is ominous and theatrical, suggesting ink dragged quickly across paper—part ritual scrawl, part horror title card. Its ragged edges and pointed terminals add tension and urgency, creating an unsettling, supernatural mood without relying on overt pictorial drips or ornaments.
The design appears intended to mimic a quick, expressive brush script translated into a legible display alphabet, using high-contrast strokes and roughened edges to evoke suspense and the handmade feel of a warning or incantation. The intentional irregularity and sharp terminals aim to inject unease and energy into headlines and branding.
The texture reads like dry-brush or worn ink, with visible bite-outs and uneven stroke fill that can create lively sparkle at larger sizes. Some forms skew toward calligraphic gestures, so line color and word shape are more prominent than strict uniformity, especially in longer text.