Last Updated on September 6, 2024
One of the largest marketing opportunities year after year is just a few weeks away – Halloween! All kinds of businesses take advantage of this season by organizing their own clever Halloween promotions.
With the spike in sales during this period, it is truly a marketing opportunity well worth considering. A large part of any design work for this type of advertising is likely to necessitate a good amount of text. This means that you need to choose the best Halloween fonts to effectively convey your spooky message.
The Best Halloween Fonts
Every year, it seems like there’s a zombie outbreak for new Halloween typefaces. This is not surprising since Halloween posters, flyers, and tickets are in demand to get the attention of potential consumers.
The typical fonts of this season showcase letters oozing with blood, filth or junk juice. But if you want to attract more customers, it’s not a bad thing to choose something new for your horror-themed designs. There are a lot of fresh seasonal fonts you can use for the spooky design poster you’re working on.
Two of the best for this season are:
The Zombie Font
Zombies are a big thing right now, thanks to the hit TV show “The Walking Dead.” If you’re planning a zombie-themed promotion or announcement, you can replicate the font used by the show for instant recognition.
Admittedly, the typeface doesn’t look like the typical creepy font with ooze and drippings, but it’s something new but globally recognized. This can easily attract more customers, particularly those who love the show.
Otherwise, get inspiration from the classic zombie B-movies from the 60s and 70s to elevate the zombie “vibe” of your design.
The Harry Potter-Inspired Font
If you want a more subtle yet still creepy font for your Halloween poster, choose from the variety of Harry Potter-inspired typefaces.
Most present a clear and readable feature despite their creepy tones. HP-inspired fonts make a superb copy font for Halloween invitations, customized flyers, and special posters. They’re quite versatile too since both children and adults can recognize the fonts from the famous book and movie franchise.
Furthermore, using an HP-inspired font adds an instant touch of mystery, mayhem, and magic to your design.
Creepy Halloween Fonts
Zombie and HP-inspired fonts are just two examples of great Halloween typefaces. To get you more options, here are 55 creepy Halloween fonts you can use for your annual promotions.
1. Fright Night
Used throughout many horror movies and even known for being used as the font in the hit Netflix series ‘Stranger Things‘, Fright Night is the perfect font for anyone looking to create a little spooky suspense in their designs.
2. Hellscourt
Spooky, versatile, and super fun, this brand-new horror font is the perfect display typeface for any project.
3. Pokra – Halloween Typeface
Slimline, modern, and unique, we think that Pokra is versatile and ideal for any design that you are hoping to give a spooky, mysterious, or unpredictable edge to.
4. WILD2 Ghixm
Ghixm is a retrospective of the horror comics and movie posters of the 1960s and the 1970s. It’s fluid forms harken to watery graves and tentacled unnameable horrors. These twisted shapes are reminiscent of titles that will make your skin crawl. It’s already warped and twisted, so don’t hesitate to abuse it. This face can take it and still deliver its chaotic message.
5. That’s Just Gross
This font was just for fun. It is only 26 capital characters. No punctuation, no lowercase, no numbers. I made it strictly for fun.
6. Manticore
A bold brush/marker font in all caps. Includes numerals, punctuation, couple of extra glyphs and alternates for some letters. I’ve found the font great for ’80s style prints, horror themed stuff or any punk/grunge/urban themed graphics.
7. Lord Zero
Check out our loudest & wildest font yet – Lord Zero! This handmade font is the perfect attention-grabber for your posters, logos, apparel, album artwork, or any design which needs a good kick up the proverbial.
8. Veritus
Veritus is a brush font with wicked characters. It includes English uppercase letters, numbers and simple punctuation. Some letters also have alternate versions which you can toggle with caps lock.
9. Endless Sorrow
Endless Sorrow is a all caps versatile display font inspired by vintage typography that usually shown on poster, book and CD cover. The irregular height of the font clearly represents the feeling of hand-drawn and humanis. You can use it for your next handcrafted projects: poster, flyer, banner, illustration, cover, etc.
10. Beast
Beast is a brush font with uppercase letters, alternate letters, numbers and punctuation. Some letters have alternate versions which you can toggle with Caps Lock.
11. Monster Party
Monster Party is an illustrated display face with a lot of character for any haunting occasions. It comes in two styles, Monsters and Bones for whichever your situation calls for.
12. Muertos Typeface
Muertos is a strange typeface with multilingual uppercase letters, alternate letters, numbers, punctuation and ornaments.
13. Deathgrin
Deathgrin is a hand made, horrror-style display font, guaranteed to give your text a healthy dose of terror. The font is caps only, however does includes a few alternates and basic punctuation.
14. Myster
Myster is a truly random font — each lowercase letter has three alternatives, that interchange in the set. This makes Myster look alive, hand-crafted, painted for a special occasion, rather than a font selected from a regular type case…
Of course, the mystical character of the font defines the scope of its usage — film, gaming and publishing industries. However Myster’s field of application goes beyond them. This font is able to create a desired atmosphere in packaging, children books, magazines, as well as in advertising.
15. Unstable Slab
Unstable Slab is the slab serif version of our Unstable font. It features a variable baseline to give it an unstable look, and the upper and lower cases differ slightly and can be mixed to achieve a less uniform look.
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16. Creepster Pro
Its ghastly! Its gory! Its gruesomely gleeful! Its Creepster Pro, the blood-curdling new font from Squid and Sideshow. This fright-filled font has so many alternates its like stitching together your own monster every time you use it. Creepster Pro: Perfect for all of your grisly graphic needs!
17. Dead Zone
18. Monster Fiesta
An offbeat, fun, and frightful serif typeface inspired by the 1969 Rankin Bass animagic classic titled, Mad Monster Party.
19. Horror
Horror is, as its name suggests, a terribly great expressive typography to illustrate topics such as: nocture atmosphere, horror, zombie movie, hard rock, festival, halloween … Accompanied many ornaments you can easily illustrate these themes.
20. Martyric
Wild trash style typeface.
21. Smashing
Smashing is a stout typeface, with a twist. It’s a massive all-caps font with bouncing glyphs, positively bold yet quite good-humored. Its upper and lower case slots stores different lettershapes, providing handy options to choose from.
22. Schwarz
Schwarz is a Black Letter typeface inspired by all that is black. Jagged edges and sharp diagonals make Schwarz a head banging font. Some stylistic alternates and ligatures are also available.
23. Fluffy Slacks BTN
Fluffy Slacks is a casually dressed typeface perfect for informal signage, headlines and display applications.
24. Shrunken Head BB
Shrunken head is a classic, distressed comic book title font. The family consists of regular, italic, light, and light italic.
25. Ewing Julian – Layered Typeface
Ewing Julian is a 100% handmade typeface. With 5 styles which complete each other, give you a professional horror design. Complete lower-case and upper-case alphabet with some punctuation and symbols . Also bonus graphic pack to make your design even more awesome.
26. Manicuore
Manicuore is a hand-drawn typeface inspired on Italian movie posters by the prolific movie poster artist Symeoni (a.k.a. Sandro Simeoni). Being a talented and skilled painter, portraitist and illustrator, Symeoni enjoyed a long and fruitful career and was remarkably productive during the sixties and seventies.
27. Beats
28. Wolfsblood
Wolfsblood is a new display face by Jim Ford, adapted from hand-lettered logos spawned by punk rock bands like The Misfits and Bad Brains. The style can be traced back further to Hollywood and the explosion of low-budget exploitation, horror and sci-fi films, which also had an influence in punk rock.
29. Frontline
Thrilling titler for grade-B movie poster.
30. Hammerhead
31. Artsy Brush
Artsy Brush was inspired from ink & tints manual handdrawn brush to make a natural messy could help to good display, uses for labeling, clothing, movie screen, band logo,film title, gigs, or cover album.
32. Sinister Black
33. Story Brush
Story Brush is the high detailed brush font that has over 240 glyphs. Coming with 2 Verison Reguler and slanted. This font is equipped with OpenType feature for make custom feel for your design. This font is designed for t-shirts design, logos, horror design, grunge & etc.
34. Rag FY
Rag FY, a wild and dynamic typeface, with crazy animals dingbats. Perfect for headlines, posters, short texts or logo design.
35. Dexsar Brush
Dexsar Brush is the high detailed brush font that has over 240 glyphs and equipped with OpenType feature for make custom feel for your design. This font is designed for design purposes such as t-shirts, logos, posters and etc.
36. Virus Cursed Halloween Sans Font
With a bold and sharp stroke, you could almost say that Virus Cursed is dangerous in its design. The typeface features ligatures, a range of glyphs and alternates, and multilingual support for good measure.
37. Wani Sambat – Halloween Font
Quirky, unusual, and fun, this typeface is ideal for anyone looking to create something weird, wonderful and interesting. Ideal for print and media design, the font package comes with OTF and TTF formats and numerals, ligatures, and upper or lowercase lettering as required.
38. Kasperak – Horror Display Typeface
Sharp, dangerous, menacing, and intimidating, Kasperak is the ideal Halloween or horror-themed font for any project that you desire.
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39. Sporken – Halloween Gothic Font
A cool gothic typeface that is best suited to posters or big and bold media designs, Sporken is a great Halloween font that you can easily edit or manipulate as you wish.
40. Alter Creed
Alter Creed is incredible because it combines a stunning gothic effect with simplistic design. Perfect for use on logos, branding, and media design too, Alter Creed provides ample opportunity to introduce a little horror into your designs without going over the top.
41. Raven Hell Gothic
A simple, yet effective gothic typeface, Raven Hell includes various font styles that you can use to create something great. Perfect for gothic-themed events or parties.
42. Hellghost Typeface
As well as sounding awesome, we think that Hellghost looks awesome too. With over 100 themed illustrations included, you are not just paying for a good typeface; you are paying for an entire spooky experience.
43. Bones Letter – A Bones Style Font
As the name suggests, this style of font is characterized by one thing, bones. The font itself is highly unique and looks great on a range of different designs, so be sure to tey it today and give any project or promotion of yours a spooky edge.
44. Mister Slasher – Halloween Font
Sharp, edgy, and unique, this font is a perfect display typeface and will make any poster or flyer look terrifying.
45. Mironta Halloween Font
A whimsical and magical typeface, Mirona looks like a font that you might see in a movie about a witch. We love this unique and versatile font and think that it would be a great fit with any spooky design you are aiming for.
46. Antique – Halloween Font
Edgy, whimsical, fun, and a little bit different, Antique is a super stylish typeface that is perfect for all things Halloween. Use it on a poster, a flyer, an invitation, or a logo to great effect.
47. Beyone – Halloween Font
A font package that is full of promise and full of features, Beyone is a gorgeous typeface that we think will have people shivering in fear! With numerals and punctuation included, as well as multilingual support, your next design is in safe hands with Beyone.
48. Baracuda Monster – Horror Font
A terrifying typeface, we think that Barracuda Monster is exactly what your next project needs to really stand out.
49. Monsterific BB
Monsterific BB was inspired by classic 70s horror magazine titles, and features a large complement of European characters and over 160 Opentype Autoligatures! Perfect for Halloween or any spooky time of the year!
50. Dusk
51. YWFT Attic
This stately YWFT Attic is full of surprises, with gorgeous stylistic alternates and swash features that even Scooby Doo might leap into your arms over, if it wasn’t for you meddling kids.
52. Hola Witch – A Display Font
Slick and well-made with a range of different features, Hola Witch is a fantastic typeface that we think will make all of your designs stand out.
53. The Hoca – Display Serif Font
With more than 400 glyphs, we dont think that you will find a more comprehensive typeface package anywhere.
54. Spookyman – Halloween + Extras
A truly spooky typeface, there are 4 different styles available in the package and endless customization opportunities.
55. Halloween Secret
The name might be Halloween Secret, but it is no secret that this typeface is well designed and full of ligatures, alternates, and numeral support for good measure. Easy to read and even easier to edit, enjoy this font today!
