Free Halloween fonts licensed to make your skin crawl

3 October 2018

Let’s get spooky! Halloween is around the corner: On October 31, witches, ghosts and zombies will stalk the streets again. For this occasion, we have put together a number of free “spooky” fonts which you can use for your Halloween projects such as party invitations, flyers or admission tickets.

By the time October rolls around, spiders, zombies, witches and jack-o’-lanterns are all over supermarkets and set the mood for the popular Celtic festival also known as All Hallows‘ Eve. Background knowledge: Halloween has its roots in Ireland and not as is often believed in the USA. It was originally a pagan festival marking the end of summer and the beginning of winter. Dressed up in scary costumes, the ancient Celts paraded around the streets to ward off evil spirits already around 2,000 years ago. Irish immigrants brought the tradition to the USA where it has become what we know as Halloween today.

Capture the spirit of Halloween on paper

As every year, children in costumes will walk from house to house yelling “Trick or treat” to get lots of candy. Scary decorations are put up in stores and homes turn into haunted houses to set the mood for spooky Halloween parties and also businesses increasingly use Halloween themed designs for their marketing and products. The authentic look is created with colours, images and fonts that are reminiscent of tombstone inscriptions or replicate the dripping look of the “Rocky Horror Picture Show” credits. Other fonts use letters made up of skeletons. Get your spook on with our selection of Halloween fonts to create custom-designed invitations, flyers and promotional items. In addition to the fonts for private use, we also present a selection of fonts for commercial use.

Sinister Halloween fonts – our favourite fonts that will make your skin crawl

October Crow: Designed in the style of classic horror movie credits, this font really captures the mood of Halloween.
Cryptik: This font is ideal as a tombstone inscription on Halloween party invitations.
Gypsy Curse: This ghostly font will give you the shivers. Unlike other Halloween fonts, it also includes lowercase letters.
Spider Font: This font inspires with its eye-catching cobweb look.
Deep Woods: We recommend this font to create mystical designs evocative of dark and mysterious forests.

Happy Halloween!!!!

Free commercial use fonts:

Plasma Drip: plasma, liquid, radioactive

License: by Ænigma Fonts, “All of my Fonts are Freeware, you can use them any way you want to (personal use, commercial use, or whatever).”
Download: as a .zip file
Font format: ttf
Styles: filled and hollow
Note: no umlauts, no ß

Capture the spirit of Halloween on paper

Sinister Halloween fonts – our favourite fonts that will make your skin crawl

Happy Halloween!!!!

Free commercial use fonts:

Plasma Drip: plasma, liquid, radioactive

Tango Macabre: skeletons, corpses, bones

Dead Font Walking: zombies, undead corpses

October Crow: october, halloween, scarecrow, crow

Lunacy More: nightmare before christmas, Tim Burton, spidery, ornamental

Ghoulish Fright: ghouls, undead corpses

Daemonesque: demons, ghosts, tombstone inscription

Cryptik: tombstone inscription

Gypsy Curse: curse, ghosts, zombies

Rocky: The rocky horror picture show

Spider Font: spiders, cobwebs, spiderweb

Dripping Cool: plasma, vomit, brains, zombies

Rapscallion: tombstone inscription

Zombie: zombies, undead corpses

Deep Woods Initials: woods, darkness, fen fire

Shlop: blood, drops, liquid

A Charming Font: charmed, witches

Private use fonts:

Latchboy: nightmare before christmas

Nemo Nightmares: nightmare, nightmare before christmas

Vademecum: ghosts, zombies, graves

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