Creepster
SideshowSphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Display · 1 weight · OFL
Free horror fonts
Drawn to unsettle: dripping, cracked, clawed or decayed letterforms made for posters and titles rather than reading.
About horror typefaces
How to recognise it
- Letterforms damaged on purpose: dripping, cracked, clawed or rotting.
- Irregular edges that break up at small sizes.
- Almost always display only, and often capitals only.
Horror or graffiti?
Graffiti is made by a hand with a spray can and reads as energy. Horror is drawn to look decayed or threatening, and reads as a warning.
Graffiti fonts →Where it works
Halloween material, film and game titles, album covers and event posters — a few words, set large.
Where it does not
Anything longer than a title. The texture that makes a headline menacing turns a sentence into noise.
Nosifer
TypomondoSphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Display · 1 weight · OFL · Türkçe
Eater
TypomondoSphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Display · 1 weight · OFL · Türkçe
Butcherman
TypomondoSphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Display · 1 weight · OFL · Türkçe
Questions
- What is a horror font?
- Drawn to unsettle: dripping, cracked, clawed or decayed letterforms made for posters and titles rather than reading. Letterforms damaged on purpose: dripping, cracked, clawed or rotting.
- When should I use a horror typeface?
- Halloween material, film and game titles, album covers and event posters — a few words, set large. Where it does not work: anything longer than a title. The texture that makes a headline menacing turns a sentence into noise.
- What is the difference between horror and graffiti fonts?
- Graffiti is made by a hand with a spray can and reads as energy. Horror is drawn to look decayed or threatening, and reads as a warning.
- Are these horror fonts free for commercial use?
- Yes. All 4 of them are published under licences that permit commercial use — the SIL Open Font License, the Apache License 2.0, the Ubuntu Font Licence or a release into the public domain — with no fee and no credit required. Every download on this site includes the licence file inside the zip.