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Not everyone in our team has a thing for horror movies. Speaking of games in that genre, thanks to all gaming YouTubers, it’s possible to enjoy the plot without having to deal with the frightening and tense gameplay or jumpscares. Hence, these things are nothing compared to love for a high-quality horror font! As we like to repeat, referring to other digital goods selections, there are no limits on your ideas. Even if the scary letter fonts are called this way, nothing forbids you to apply them to projects, having no liaison with a horror theme. The diversity of styles, visions, allusions to pop culture and just the way every item is made — it’s high time to face your fears in the name of creativity!
Our Team’s Top Pick
The Viperion — Display Typeface
Introducing, The Viperion — a scary font with bold and unusual form. This display typeface has a unique shape, very suitable for horror, thriller and spooky-theme design. The item is also perfectly made to be applied to logos and other various projects such as invitations, labels, magazines, books, novels, tags, or any advertising purpose. Let out your darkest design ideas!
Backbone
The Backbone is a simple display font with bone embellishments at the ends of each letter. This one is the perfect scary font for Halloween party invitations, party decorations, and many zombie-themed events! Backbone comes with 310 glyphs, swashes, stylistic sets, alternates and ligatures, as well as swashes, and ligatures, giving it an obvious advantage over the other horror fonts.
Fright Night
If you’re looking for a scary font that will grab the reader’s attention and build suspense, this one is for you. Fright Night is an emotional serif typeface with horror vibes, which has a clean, sharp, and unique feel. Fright Night is suitable for posters, movie titles, billboards, branding, business card, and much more.
Aviorte Blackletter Font
Embrace the spookiness of a blackletter font! Its spiky characters look majestic and scary at the same time. Multilanguage support coming in the package as well, allows you to design & translate messages for any audience. As a little bonus to complete the look: swashes, drawn Dobermann heads, ornamental elements. The font is ready to be your title, headline, or logotype, badge, t-shirt design or branding project.
Ghoul
What story is hiding behind the characters of this horror font? Ghoul is a spooky-themed brush font that’s awesome for scary and bold titles. It includes uppercase multilingual letters, punctuation and numbers plus some extra frightening vibes to it! Using this scary font with grunge and noisy overlays would enhance the impression greatly.
Byegonest Typewriter Font
A message written on a yellowish paper with a typewriter font generally means two things: it’s either a letter from the 19th century or a note from some movie kidnapper. Either way, this typeface easily passes for a scary font, thanks to many film plots about serial killers. It comes in 2 styles, 3 weights, and has a set of alternates.
Horrible Brush – Horror Font
Horrible Brush is a horror brush typeface with a messy texture suitable for some scary and Halloween projects. Each letter is made in a vibrant, trembling manner to evoke the emotions. It’s all caps with numerals, punctuation, and also multilingual support. Just one look at this scary font makes you anxious… in a proper spooky way, of course.
Zombie Carshel — Brush Textured Font
Here’s the all-caps hand-drawn horror font created with a dry brush that gives a more personal touch and makes the font fully-customized. This creepy font is suitable to be used as a logotype, product designs, labels, watermarks, social media posts, apparel, invitations, special events or anything that needs handwriting taste.
Vampire Zone Font
Beware of dangers as you’re entering the vampire zone, where the bouncy creepy font lives! The typeface is inspired by a quirky style with a fun Halloween theme, suitable for various party posters, flyers, craft packaging, labels, and so on. Such details as halftone texture and some contrasting palette would be a perfect addition to the final result. Curly characters are hypnotizing; you’ve been warned!
Scratch
Scratch is an edgy, awesome handmade scary font with every letter, number, punctuation, and glyph you can imagine! Do you know what else it has in abundance? The chilling feeling to it, as if it was actually scratched by some horror-movie creature. Sketchy lettering like this one would look great on a monochrome background or as a pattern of scribbled words, written all over the artboard.
Scary Things — Sharp & Creepy Serif
Scary Things is a sharp serif with horror & creepy vibes! This serif is so clean that it will make your design pop up. This font is suitable for poster movies, especially thriller & horror genres. With a unique & sharp shape, this horror font will make your posters stand out! Besides, this font supports multi-language settings.
Nightmare Before Christmas Font
Imitating the title style for the same-named stop-motion dark fantasy movie by Tim Burton, this scary letters font has the potential of being recognized and consequently won’t be overlooked in the array of other horror design projects. If you haven’t seen the cartoon, first off, you should definitely fix that; second — the typeface itself deserved your attention.
Pandora Typeface
Fair to say, Pandora is a weird typeface, compared to the other horror fonts. But obviously, it’s what makes this one so aesthetic, mysterious and captivating! This scary movie font consists of 3 different variations: the simple version of the font, the one having more geometric & abstract elements. The last one is just out of this world! That horror movie font comes packed with the essentials: uppercase letters and numerals.
Stranglethorn YR
Stranglethorn is a mystery, Halloween and horror font, looking scary, dark, readable, stylish, catchy and easy to use simultaneously. It’s the best choice for your professional design projects, including logos, poster designs, t-shirts, headlines, flyers, covers, branding, magazines, social media, advertisements or something that needs modern or futuristic looks.
Run! Font
Attention-seeking horror font! This slanted sans is one of a kind. All the energy and stamina fitted from A-Z! It’ll be a perfect addition to your loud design projects. Now, with few effects applied, you can bring your presentations to the next level! Even with flat colors, Run! Font pokes you in the eye. To form a great output, combine both uppercase and lowercase and see a better result.
Deep Horror Font
The classic horror movie genre has brought us many stylish covers and posters, setting the standard of vintage aesthetics. Deep Horror text font is not an exception! It comes in regular and italic versions and is suitable for wedding invitations, event promos, t-shirts, logos, badge ideas. Also, the combination of different letters and ligatures allows you to have fun and, at the same time, create your unique style.
Circus Freak Font
Circus Freak scary font was partly inspired by the old American chromatic wood type from the late 1800s and the desire to create a chromatic typeface. Its old-style western sensibility and thick slab serifs will add a dramatic look to any design project. The fancy horror typeface includes language support for eastern, central and west European countries, in total, it has 345 glyphs.
Lethal Slime
How to turn slime into something spooky and scary? Add the word “lethal” to it and you’re done! But seriously, it wouldn’t work without this gooey horror font being so suitable for some frightening designs: Halloween posters, party invitations, childhood horror story books and comics titles and social media posts. And don’t get me started on color combinations each letter can be enhanced with!
Sorrow — Horror Font
If you’re searching for a scary mystery experience, the Sorrow Horror Font is a decorative typeface that can meet your requirements. Created with slovenly-looking characters, adding extra grunge mood, the typeface appears to be a classic horror-inspired collection of letters. This font would be perfect for any product (physical or digital) with a horror, scary, gothic theme.
Hallowen Typeface
Get another retro, vintage and grunge style display font for your new projects. Great for your Christmas or Halloween projects, and would look relatively scary for a childhood horror story project! It comprises 6 font files: regular & grunge, inline & grunge, bold & grunge. A slight halftone effect applied to it will come in handy and only improve the perception of a ready-made project.
Crimes Times Six Font
Horror fonts don’t necessarily have to be about demons, nightmare visions, and maniacs. For the sake of a scare, horror typography should create some suspense and trigger the emotions your project would benefit from. Precisely for the described purpose, introducing this free font, charged with a thriller vibe.
Exorcist — Horror Display Typeface
Are you any good at exorcism and driving out the demons from people’s soul? Sounds too blunt to ask a thing like that but in case you’re into that kind of stuff, this horror movie font is exactly for you. Exorcist display font has a scary Halloween feeling in it. Try to download and use it for many occasions such as Halloween, movie or book title, invitations, clothing, music and many more!
Another Danger | Horror Font
The kind of typeface that proves its usefulness from time to time. This scary font has unruly inks delivered to every glyph, producing the enigmatic effect. Create the hardcore vibe, the retro feel, the artworks of chaos. Splatter your creativity with Another Danger! The package includes 2 types of font: Another Danger + Another Danger Slanted.
Gristled Font Font
An evil creature can be defeated with silver bullets, wooden stakes or mysterious potions with an ancient Latin spell read aloud. A bad horror-themed design can be saved with a well-picked scary font, especially if it’s a free one. Gristled is a distressed spooky typeface that looks epic and fascinating on posters, movie titles, invitations and flyers.
Freich Monsta
Trick or treat! It’s better to be ready for the spookiest time of the year in advance. Spread the Halloween spirit with this chilling, creepy and scary font, Freich Monsta! It’s mutated from a clean, strong, and bold font to a spooky display font with a vintage horror twist. Retro vibes with a pinch of fear form a perfect spooky harmony for many future designs to come!
Scarytale Vintage Layered Font
Tell a spooky story, accompanied by one of the cutest scary fonts! If we were to compare it with something aside of other horror fonts, it would be another Tim Burton cartoon: giving the chills at first sight, but turning out to be so lovely anyway. It’s a multi-layered & multilingual vintage typeface that works well for fabulous book covers, T-shirts, invitations, and logotypes.
Face Your Fears Font
Probably, the most popular horror films move is writing threats or calls for help with dipped in red paint fingers. ‘Causethere is nothing more safe and peaceful in life than encountering this kind of messages (sarcasm alert). If you want to strike terror in the audience, click the “download” button on the page with this free scary font and compose the most fearful designs!
Spook Show Poster Font & Art Bundle
It’s creepy, and it’s kooky, mysterious, and spooky! Sure it’s perfect for retro-inspired horror or Halloween designs. But its “wiggly” outline also makes this horror film font a fantastic choice for designs that need an icy, chilly, reptilian, shaky, or nervous vibe. It also includes a selection of editable vector stock illustrations, unlike many other horror fonts.
Pentacle Font
What can Halloween design do without the ouija board — the thing usually causing the plot development in every scary story? Pentacle creepy font is a great lettering, that’s ready to be paired with over 130 apothecary-inspired icons. Gothic and sans serif, the Pentacle fonts work perfectly together and can also stand alone.
Curse of the Zombie
There are not enough t-shirts in the world to make prints with all these gorgeous free scary fonts! And not adding this vintage typeface to your collection would be as cruel as committing a crime. Save yourself from trouble by downloading this package to always be armed with creative resources. The last tip to take into consideration: a slasher font like this is sure to cause shrieks of excitement!
Carpathia Typeface + Extras
The only sphere where one can let occultism slide is art! Every character in this horror font is the result of witchcraft, how else can you explain such a powerful spirit they carry? Carpathia is a display typeface inspired by sorcery. Its ultra condensed, carved styling evokes a spooky handmade feel that will add atmosphere to any project.
Bates Shower Font
You might not have watched the “Bates Motel,” but at least discovering this free scary font can do half of the business, making you feel that horror moment. The letters, imitating blood stains, are artistically smudged and used to picture the alphabet in a threatening manner. And the “O” swirls are just splendid!
Karloff — Halloween Horror Font
The best ideas get born after paying close attention to everything your brain consumes: movies, books, music, commercials, games and other sources of information. Taking this scary font, for example, what cartoon does it make you think of? While you’re busy with the answer, here’s what the typeface contains: basic Latin letters, numbers & symbols you can all use.
Dreadful + Extras
Are you a fan of old-school horror movies with a distorted grainy picture and some horror fonts in the titles? This typeface called Dreadful is inspired by the horror movie classics and vintage comic books. Dreadful is the best option for applying it to a heading, logotype, quotes, apparel design, invitations, posters greeting cards, packaging and more.
Meltdown MF Font
Sometimes people do reckless things operating out of emotion. Hotheads or passionate fellas, they can either step out of their comfort zone or make a mess, creating a genuinely horror moment! Let the only meltdown in your life be this free scary font. Imitating a disgusting goo, the purpose of use here is obvious!
Deathgrin
Deathgrin is an entirely hand-drawn, horror-style scary text font, guaranteed to give your inscriptions a healthy dose of terror. The font is all-caps only, however it does include a few alternates and basic punctuation. It’s the mixture of a heavy metal style with some forbidden witchcraft — a suitable recipe for a horror design.
A Charming Font
Among all the typical scary fonts, there stays a bunch of gothic typography, inevitably associated with vampires. And not just the bloodthirsty monsters, but the exquisite ones. Pointy characters appear as dangerous digital spikes! Consider adding extra effects with overlays to ensure the achieved results are grunge and bold enough.
Chopping Block Font
Chopping Block is a spooky, blood-curdling, scary font for any horror design, demanding gruesome typography — Halloween parties, horror film festivals, maybe gothic wedding invitations? Playful or horrifying, let your audience know what they’re in for… Everyone will scream from the excitement!
Raven Song Font
Not only the dark backgrounds, mysterious visions, and carefully-selected stock photos of witches or monsters shape the hardcore vibe of an artwork. Sometimes a mere slasher font is enough to launch the chaos machine in mind, a sucker for any creepy artworks. This free horror font has thin, extended characters, stretching out to be as psychologically intimidating as possible!
Dracula Palace — Gothic Horror Font
Dracula Palace is a horror movie font comprising both gothic and scary designs style because of its peculiar shape. The characters come with OpenType features such as stylistic alternates, punctuation marks, and numerals, providing the whole bunch of elements for any design idea to be brought to life with a fancy horror typeface. Overall, the central motif is not too pushy, so the result doesn’t come out too persistent.
Magnificent Serif Font
Having tried out tons of inventive decorative or display fonts, there might appear a feeling of glut, accompanied by the tiredness of complicated shapes, forms, indistinguishable characters, or swirls. What is likely to become your remedy is a proper horror film font, made in a classic Halloween party style. The basic Latin alphabet, numerals, and punctuation marks are included — what else do you need for striking creative designs?
Spooky Society SVG Font
Booo, or should I say, it’s time for your Halloweeny projects or horror design artworks to obtain some fresh choice of SVG font + design elements! Say hello to Spooky Society! A ghoulish and fun all-caps Bitmap SVG font with built-in speckly texture. A Regular Solid version of the font is also included for you. The doodles used in the previews have been added for you as well. It’s the loveliest typeface out of all the other horror fonts!
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