Spooky Yasa 7 is a bold, narrow, high contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: horror posters, halloween promos, game titles, album covers, book covers, ominous, eerie, ritual, gothic, menacing, create tension, evoke horror, thematic display, hand-cut feel, spiky, tapered, jagged, calligraphic, inked.
This display face is built from sharp, blade-like strokes with aggressive tapers and pointed terminals. Letterforms are condensed and vertically emphasized, with irregular, hand-cut contours that create a restless rhythm across words. Strokes alternate between swollen inked masses and razor-thin connections, producing dramatic internal counters and occasional slit-like apertures. The overall texture is dark and compact, with uneven edges that feel intentionally rough rather than geometric or polished.
Best suited to short display settings where the jagged silhouettes can be appreciated: horror and thriller posters, Halloween or haunted-attraction promotions, game title screens, album artwork, and dark fantasy book covers. It can also work for packaging or labels aiming for an arcane, ominous voice, especially when paired with a simpler text companion for body copy.
The font communicates a distinctly ominous, supernatural tone—more carved-into-stone and candlelit than playful. Its spines and thorny silhouettes suggest danger, mystery, and a theatrical horror atmosphere. The irregularity adds a human, uneasy presence that reads as spellbook, dungeon, or midnight poster lettering.
The design appears intended to deliver immediate atmosphere through sharp tapering, irregular stroke edges, and compressed vertical forms—prioritizing mood and impact over neutral readability. Its letterforms aim to feel hand-rendered and sinister, like inked runes or cut metal signage, making it a purposeful choice for dramatic, thematic headlines.
At text sizes the dense black shapes can begin to merge, so the design reads most clearly when given generous size and spacing. Numerals and capitals maintain the same pointed, tapered logic, helping the set feel consistent for titling and short statements.