Free Halloween fonts licensed to make your skin crawl

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Free Halloween fonts licensed to make your skin crawl

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:

halloween font: Plasma Drip

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

 

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halloween font: Tango Macabre

Tango Macabre: skeletons, corpses, bones

  • License: “100 % free”
  • Download: as a .zip file
  • Font format: ttf
  • Note: no lowercase letters, no umlauts, no ß

 

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halloween font: Dead Font Walking

Dead Font Walking: zombies, undead corpses

  • License: “100 % free”
  • Download: as a .zip file
  • Font format: otf
  • Note: no umlauts, no ß

 

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hallowee font: October Crow

October Crow: october, halloween, scarecrow, crow

  • License: by Sinister Fonts, “100 % freeware for commercial and private use”
  • Download: as a .zip file
  • Font format: ttf
  • Note: no lowercase letters, no umlauts, no ß

 

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halloween font: Lunacy More

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

  • License: “100 % free”
  • Download: as a .zip file
  • Font format: ttf
  • Note: no umlauts, no ß

 

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halloween font: Ghoulish Fright

Ghoulish Fright: ghouls, undead corpses

  • License: by Astigmatic One Eye Typographic Institute, “[…] designed for you to use and enjoy free of charge. Use them in your Personal and Commercial projects and designs. […]”
  • Download: as a .zip file
  • Font format: ttf and PostScript
  • Note: includes umlauts and ß

 

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halloween font: Daemonesque

Daemonesque: demons, ghosts, tombstone inscription

  • License: “Free” by Gem Fonts
  • Download: as a .zip file
  • Font format: ttf
  • Note: only uppercase letters, no umlauts, no ß

 

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halloween font: Cryptik

Cryptik: tombstone inscription

  • License: “free for commercial use”
  • Download: as a .zip file
  • Font format: ttf
  • Note: no umlauts, no ß

 

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halloween font: Gypsy Curse

Gypsy Curse: curse, ghosts, zombies

  • License: by Sinister Fonts, “100 % freeware for commercial and private use”
  • Download: as a .zip file
  • Font format: ttf
  • Note: no umlauts, no ß

 

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halloween font: Rocky

Rocky: The rocky horror picture show

  • License: by Astigmatic One Eye Typographic Institute, “[…] designed for you to use and enjoy free of charge. Use them in your Personal and Commercial projects and designs. […]”
  • Download: as a .zip file
  • Font format: ttf and PostScript
  • Note: uppercase letters only, includes umlauts and ß

 

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halloween font: Spider Font

Spider Font: spiders, cobwebs, spiderweb

  • License: “100 % free”
  • Download: as a .zip file
  • Font format: ttf
  • Note: no umlauts, no ß, no numbers, no lowercase letters

 

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halloween font: Dripping Cool

Dripping Cool: plasma, vomit, brains, zombies

  • License: by Marco Mirko Nani, “100% free”
  • Download: as a .zip file
  • Font format: ttf
  • Note: no lowercase letters, no umlauts, no ß, no numbers

 

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halloween font: Rapscallion

Rapscallion: tombstone inscription

  • License: by Ryan Splint, freeware for personal and commercial use.
  • Download: as a .zip file
  • Font format: ttf
  • Note: no umlauts, no ß

 

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halloween font: Zombie

Zombie: zombies, undead corpses

  • License: by Rotodesign, “100% free”
  • Download: as a .zip file
  • Font format: ttf
  • Note: only uppercase letters, no umlauts, no ß

 

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halloween font: Deep Woods Initials

Deep Woods Initials: woods, darkness, fen fire

  • License: by Paul Lloyd, “100% free”
  • Download: as a .zip file
  • Font format: ttf
  • Note: uppercase letters only, no umlauts, no ß, no numbers

 

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halloween font: Shlop

Shlop: blood, drops, liquid

  • License: by Raymond Larabie, “free for commercial use”
  • Download: as a .zip file
  • Font format: ttf
  • Note: no ß, no lowercase letters

 

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halloween font: A Charming Font

A Charming Font: charmed, witches

  • License: by Gem Fonts, “Freeware for personal and commercial use.”
  • Download: as a .zip file
  • Font format: ttf
  • Styles: regular, expanded, italic, leftleaning, outline, superexpanded
  • Note: includes umlauts and ß

 

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Private use fonts:

halloween font: Latchboy

Latchboy: nightmare before christmas

  • License: by Chris Hansen, “This font is free for personal use. For commercial use, please contact me at Urban_ninja4real@hotmail.com.”
  • Download: as a .zip file
  • Font format: ttf
  • Note: no umlauts, no ß, no numbers

 

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halloween font: Nemo Nightmares

Nemo Nightmares: nightmare, nightmare before christmas

  • License: by Chris Hansen, “This font is free for personal use. For commercial use, please contact Urban_ninja4real@hotmail.com”
  • Download: as a .zip file
  • Font format: ttf
  • Note: no umlauts, no ß

 

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halloween font: Vademecum

Vademecum: ghosts, zombies, graves

  • License: by Typodermic Fonts, “[…] includes a license that allows free commercial use: sometimes referred to as a desktop license. If you’d like to embed this font in an app, ebook, on the web or anything that’s not covered by the desktop license agreement, visit http://typodermicfonts.com/vademecum/. […] “
  • Download: as a .zip file
  • Font format: ttf
  • Note: includes umlauts and ß

 

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Credits:

The article image uses the Gypsy Curse font.
Image source: © Jag_cz / via Shutterstock

 

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