Wacky Obla 13 is a bold, wide, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album art, horror titles, event flyers, game ui, grunge, horror, punk, chaotic, handmade, add texture, create unease, signal diy, stand out, ragged, dripping, rough, blotty, inked.
A distressed display face with heavily eroded outlines and uneven, blobby stroke edges that create a torn-and-splattered silhouette. Forms are upright and generally blocky, with compact counters and frequent bite-like nicks that interrupt stems, bowls, and terminals. Texture is consistent across uppercase, lowercase, and numerals, producing a noisy rhythm and irregular color on the line, while spacing and widths vary enough to heighten the handmade, cut-out feel.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as posters, horror or Halloween titling, album/merch graphics, and attention-grabbing event flyers. It can also work for game UI labels or splash screens where a grimy, distressed voice is desired, especially at larger sizes.
The overall tone is abrasive and mischievous, leaning into spooky, macabre, and rebellious aesthetics. Its distressed texture reads like smeared ink or decaying paint, giving text an intentionally unsettling, DIY character.
The design appears intended to prioritize texture and attitude over neutrality, using aggressive distressing and irregular widths to simulate a rough, handcrafted mark. It aims to instantly signal a gritty, eerie mood and stand apart from conventional display faces.
At text sizes the distressed edge detail can visually close counters and thicken joins, so the face reads strongest when given room and size. The numerals and lowercase maintain the same gnawed texture, supporting cohesive display setting across mixed-case headlines and short bursts of copy.