Scary Fonts On Google Docs
Gwenda Arguin
Halloween is here - what a fun time of year! The pumpkins are carved and the seeds are roasting in the oven, a chill is in the air, and all the little monsters are busy planning their best tricks and hoping for excellent treats. With all the trick or treating & costume planning, why not add some Halloween spirit to your website as well? We're happy to publish 4 new, fun, and scary fonts this week that are sure to provide a spoooooky feel for your website!
We would love to see how creative you can get with these fonts - please let us know where you are using them in the comments of this post, and we'll send out a Google Web Fonts T-shirt for our favorite!
Its ghastly! Its gory! Its gruesomely gleeful! It's Creepster, 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: perfect for all of your grisly graphic needs!
The biggest advantage of creepy Google fonts is their ability to make your texts look more visually appealing and engaging. In addition, their basic features evoke a sense of horror, thriller, and mystery.
However, scary fonts tend to prioritize their design over readability and application. Their edgy curves and intricate letterforms make them hard to read, especially for longer texts or smaller font sizes.
Creepster may be the perfect font for your Halloween-themed designs. Its sharp edges and uneven strokes add to its creepy aesthetic. This font also makes your text look hand-drawn by a quill, which is an excellent choice for creating posters, invitations, and flyers.
Butcherman is a horrifying font inspired by zombie elements. Its rough and uneven appearance makes it ideal for use in movie titles, posters, and book covers. In addition, this versatile font can be used for display and body text, adding an extra layer of fright to your designs.
You can infuse your documents with a touch of boldness and edginess by using Nosifer. This font features thick, messy lines that are perfect for horror-themed designs. The distorted letters add to their hand-drawn quality, giving your text a unique and eerie appearance. Utilize this font for headlines, titles, and other attention-grabbing text to make a lasting impact.
Frijole is a whimsical and scary font that mixes playful and spooky elements into one. It showcases thick and uneven strokes that are surprisingly easy to read. This makes it suitable for old horror posters, invitations, and flyers. Additionally, Frijole is an ideal font choice for headlines and titles.
Jolly Lodger evokes a horrifying and mysterious feel because of its bold and uneven letters. It also has distorted shapes and rough edges. Overall, this font resembles the appearance of old ransom notes, which creates an unsettling effect in horror stories and designs.
Emilys Candy, despite its cheerful and playful nature, can surprisingly serve as an excellent choice for a scary font. Its round, distorted, and bubbly letters add an intriguing twist to horror parties and materials, making them even more horrifying.
You can achieve a mysterious and spooky vibe with Mystery Quest. It has sharp edges and angles that take inspiration from the traditional Gothic lettering style. You can use this font for Halloween-themed posters, flyers, and invitations.
Eater mimics letters and characters that look infected by a contagious disease. It features jagged edges, distorted shapes, and messy lines, adding to its creepy vibe. You can use this font for posters, flyers, and book covers.
Ceviche One replicates the appearance of handwritten calligraphy. It has distorted letters, uneven strokes, and rounded curves for a playful yet spooky aesthetic. Its condensed spacing and smooth curves make it an excellent font for titles, headlines, invitations, and greeting cards.
Despite its clean and minimalist design, Joti One evokes a whimsical and horrific aesthetic. It features tall and slender letters with slightly rounded curves. It also offers good readability, making headlines, body text, and other spooky-themed designs suitable.
However, you don't necessarily want to license an expensive typeface for a one-off occasion. But you don't want to taint your design with a cheap and nasty free font either. Fortunately, there are several free Google Fonts that are perfectly suited for Halloween.
So take your audience on a spectral journey through our selection of horror-themed Google Fonts. From eerily extended serifs to curiously curved sans-serifs, these fonts will ensure your projects are hauntingly memorable!
With a dripping, melting aesthetic reminiscent of horror movie posters from the 1950s and '60s, Creepster is purpose-made to give your designs an instantly spooky vibe. That makes it perfect for everything from Halloween invitations and party posters to website headers and social media graphics. Developed in 2011 by Sideshow, an offshoot boutique type foundry of the Font Diner retro display font foundry, this font supports 41 languages. It was designed by Stuart Sandler and David Cohe.
Here's something a little different: a bold and unsettling font with sharp, aggressive edges and blood-drip embellishments. The typeface was designed by the late great Vernon Adams, who said: "Nobody knows where Nosifer comes from. It emanates a dark stench as it drips from the Internet." Available in OTF and TTF formats, Nosifer offers a great way to evoke a truly sinister atmosphere within your Halloween designs.
Why it's spooky: The unusual combination of rigid geometry and bloody drips calls forth images of classic vampire tales and horror narratives, intertwining an assertive presence with a subtext of horror and brutality.
If you're working on anything related to zombies, Butcherman is a great choice. This disturbingly top-heavy horror font was also designed by Vernon Adams, who once described it as "a zombified display font, hacked and chopped and left for dead, yet still crawling". With a rusted, decayed aesthetic that's unlike anything we've seen elsewhere, this is well worth considering for your Halloween designs.
Why it's spooky: There's something very skull-like about the shape of this font. And this eerier silhouette, coupled with its sharp, jagged edges, creates a visual synonymous with decay and a post-apocalyptic or horror movie setting.
Eater is a friendlier-looking font than the ones we've featured so far: more reminiscent of a scary children's book than an R-rated slasher movie. A regal yet decayed font with sharp serifs and a dripping, corrosive aesthetic, it's perfect for creating elegantly eerie designs for your Halloween creations. Makers Typomondo describe it as "a display font infected by the darkest of a rare disease that slowly spreads at night while the web font user sleeps".
Frijole is a chunky display font that on the fact of it is more playful than horrific. Yet there remains an underlying sense of the disturbed within its bold, blocky characters, making for a lighter, whimsical take on spooky. It was designed by Sideshow, who described it as "bold, spicy and satisfying".
Why it's spooky: Despite its seemingly cartoon-line nature, Frijole can convey a quirky, unconventional sense of unease when paired with the right kind of spooky illustration. Indeed, in the right design, it could become even more unnerving than a purposely horror-like font.
Heavy metal bands from the 1980s are commonly associated with horror-themed album covers and occult-themed song lyrics, not to mention (largely imagined) accounts of Satanic backwards messages. So, while Metal Mania is more about nostalgia for rock-and-roll rebellion than Halloween as such, these elaborate, other-worldly serif characters could certainly serve the purpose of a Halloween font within an appropriate design.
The font was designed by Dathan Boardman of Open Window, who says: "Metal Mania was inspired by lots of Heavy Metal album covers and posters. Only the most 'Metal' elements were combined to make the quintessential Heavy Metal font. First drawn were the inline forms, and then they were traced, utilising a playful 'cutout' effect."
Why it's spooky: Its intricate, slightly warped design, reminiscent of classic rock album covers, imparts an old-school, mystical and rebellious vibe, aligning perfectly with vintage and rocker-themed Halloween visuals.
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Melty Blood Font is the perfect font for a horror-themed project or for Halloween. The font offers upper and lower case characters, numbers, punctuation, and symbols, as well as alternates, ligatures, and multilingual support. What more could you ask for?
Monsterfield Melty Letters is a bloody font that's perfect for cartoons, comics, movie titles, and more. The font offers the full complement of upper and lower case characters, numbers, and punctuation.
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