Spooky Riba 8 is a regular weight, narrow, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, halloween posters, game logos, metal flyers, haunted branding, sinister, grunge, sharp, menacing, occult, create tension, evoke decay, horror branding, dramatic titling, ragged, thorny, tattered, spiky, eroded.
A jagged, distressed display face with angular silhouettes, abrupt terminals, and frequent thorn-like protrusions. Strokes show pronounced irregularity and rough edges, with occasional needle points and small bite-like notches that create an eroded texture. Curves are often faceted rather than smooth, and counters tend to be tight and uneven, reinforcing a tense, serrated rhythm across words. Overall spacing reads compact with uneven character widths, producing a restless, broken texture in lines of text.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as horror and thriller titles, Halloween event posters, game and streaming artwork, band/festival flyers, and spooky packaging or venue branding. It works especially well when given generous size and contrast against simple backgrounds, where its ragged edges and sharp terminals can read clearly.
The lettering conveys a tense, ominous mood—like scratched markings, cursed inscriptions, or horror title cards. Its sharp spikes and worn texture suggest danger, decay, and supernatural menace, leaning into a gritty, theatrical darkness rather than a clean Gothic formality.
The design appears intended to deliver immediate atmosphere through aggressive, distressed outlines and knife-like terminals. By combining a compact, text-like structure with heavy erosion and spikes, it aims to stay readable in headlines while projecting a deliberately unsettling, supernatural tone.
The distressed contouring is consistent across the set, so the roughness feels designed rather than incidental. In the sample text, the dense black shapes and irregular edges create a strong silhouette effect at larger sizes, while fine spikes and nicks become busier as size decreases.