Spooky Rise 2 is a regular weight, normal width, high contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, movie posters, halloween promos, game branding, album covers, eerie, unsettling, occult, grunge, macabre, evoke fear, handmade grit, ritual tone, dramatic impact, distress texture, brushy, ragged, spiky, tapered, scratchy.
This typeface uses jagged, brush-like strokes with abrupt tapers and occasional splintered terminals that make each letter feel hand-drawn and slightly distressed. Letterforms lean consistently, with high-contrast stroke behavior—thick swells paired with hairline flicks—creating a tense, wiry rhythm across words. Curves and bowls are irregular and sometimes broken by rough edges, while ascenders and capitals frequently end in sharp hooks or thorny projections. Numerals follow the same expressive, uneven treatment, maintaining the scratchy texture and dynamic stroke endings.
It works best for short, high-impact settings such as horror titles, poster headlines, game or event branding, and packaging that benefits from a distressed, hand-rendered edge. For longer passages, it is more effective as an accent or for pull quotes where texture and mood are more important than sustained readability.
The overall tone is ominous and ritualistic, with a scribbled, haunted quality that reads like hurried ink marks or clawed scratches. Its sharp terminals and rough contours suggest danger and decay, giving text a theatrical, horror-leaning presence rather than a calm, literary one.
The design appears intended to mimic expressive, rough brush lettering with sharpened, spiky terminals to create an unsettling, supernatural atmosphere. The controlled slant and repeated thorn-like details suggest a deliberate system for delivering a consistent horror tone across caps, lowercase, and figures.
Spacing and rhythm feel intentionally inconsistent, with some glyphs extending via spikes or hooks that add visual noise and movement. The distressed edge detail is prominent even at larger sizes, where the texture becomes part of the voice of the design.