Spooky Goba 3 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: horror titles, halloween promos, game covers, poster headlines, album art, eerie, menacing, grunge, handmade, chaotic, distressed mood, handmade impact, dramatic titling, dark theme, brushy, ragged, spiky, jagged, textured.
A rough, brush-driven display face with irregular contours, torn-looking terminals, and intermittent spikes that feel carved or scratched rather than drawn with clean geometry. Strokes show uneven edges and a lightly dry-brush texture, producing broken silhouettes and small notches throughout. Letterforms lean with a restless rhythm and inconsistent widths, while counters are often lopsided or partially pinched, adding to the distressed construction. Numerals and capitals maintain the same abrasive stroke behavior, keeping the set visually cohesive in a deliberately unrefined way.
Best suited to headline and titling applications where atmosphere is the priority: horror and thriller posters, Halloween and haunted-event promotions, game or film key art, and dramatic packaging or label graphics. It can also work for short callouts in editorial layouts when a distressed, menacing accent is needed.
The overall tone is ominous and unruly, evoking handmade signage, horror titling, and low-fi printed artifacts. Its aggressive spikes and battered texture read as tense and unsettling rather than playful, with a grimy energy suited to dark, dramatic themes.
The design appears intended to simulate fast, forceful hand-lettering with distressed edges, combining brush-like strokes with jagged, tapered terminals to create a gritty, unsettling voice. Its consistency across cases and figures suggests a focus on punchy display impact and thematic mood over neutral readability.
At text sizes the texture and narrow inner spaces can visually fill in, so the face reads strongest when given room to breathe and when contrast against the background is high. The irregular stroke endings and varying character widths create a lively, unpredictable line color that benefits from short bursts of copy rather than long passages.