Free Scary Fonts for Halloween Party Posters
Halloween-themed designs can look more spooky with scary fonts. If you need to create this look in your projects, there are actually a number of free scary fonts and dingbats out there. However, scanning the web for them would surely take time. So here, we decided to narrow down your choices by rounding up what we believe are the top 25 scary fonts that you can download for free.
Halloween is one of the most awaited holidays of the year not just among young people but also for the not-so-young age group. Designers, too, are excited about this season since it means more projects to keep them busy. With less than a month away, designers have surely started working on their Halloween design projects. And, since fonts are one of the most major element in any design, designers are therefore always in the lookout for quality types that we can use to complement graphics and reinforce the theme of the design. There are thousands of beautiful fonts out there that you can use for your designs.
The first part includes alphabet scary fonts while the last ten entries (part 2) are dingbat fonts or those types that have symbols and shapes in the positions designated for alphabetical or numeric characters. These dingbats are very useful in creating interesting Halloween graphics instantly. If you have a vector program like Adobe Illustrator, you can actually use these dingbats as vector graphics by converting them into outlines or curves.
PART I- FREE HALLOWEEN ALPHABET SCARY FONTS
Buffied Font
Inspired by Buffy the Vampire, this set of scary fonts will surely horrify your designs such as wallpapers, cards, and posters.
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Ghoulish Fonts
Inspired by vintage horror flicks and a love of all things ghastly, “Ghoulish” is a typeface only a monster could love. Haunt your designs and layouts with this exclusive font by Rue Morgue Magazine’s Art Director “Ghoulish” Gary Pullin.
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Kreepy Krawly Font
This set of scary fonts looks really creepy and are great for bold titles and headlines.
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Zombified Font
These scary fonts were hand-drawn, scanned into Photoshop, filtered, then converted into a typeface using CorelDRAW 5.
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Jack Lantern BB
This set of scary fonts is inspired by Jack O’ Lantern, a popular Halloween character. This font is best to use for cards, posters and party invites.
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You Murderer BB Font
This set of scary fonts is best for creating bloody text for your Halloween posters and flyers.
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Vampiress Font
If you want a slim, witchy font, then this set is for you.
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Nightmare 5 Font
This font is perfect for creating spooky designs like cemetery scenes or a ghost-haunted place. The only drawback is that it does not include numbers and punctuation marks. There are also no lower case alphabets.
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A Lolita Scorned Font
Commercial use of this font is allowed. Checkout with the author for details.
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Ghost Reverie Font
Another eerie font for creating Halloween-related designs. These scary fonts are free to use for personal, non-commercial projects only.
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Nightbird Font
This set of fonts features way better kerning plus new glyphs/accents.
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AuldMagick Font
Gothic font based on 19th-century German poetry book (written in fraktur). These are free for personal use.
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Charon’s Obol Font
This is just a tryout version of Charon’s Obol. If you’d like to get the full version of the font, including all characters, accents, and numbers, a commercial license is available.
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Angryblue Font
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The Sin of the Innocent Font
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PART II- FREE HALLOWEEN DINGBAT FONTS
AEZ Halloween Dingbats
A set of very useful Halloween characters and clip art that you can use in your designs.
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Bumkins
Plenty of funky pumpkin cartoons and characters that you can use for free in this set.
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Kiddy Halloween
There are 26 spooky characters in this set, representing the 26 lower cap keys on your keyboard. There are no characters assigned to Uppercase letters, so make sure your caps lock is off when using these dingbat fonts.
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Drac by Haunted House Fonts
There are 31 Halloween-related clip art images included in this set. To use these fonts, make sure you have your caps lock on. The characters are assigned to uppercase letters only on your keyboard. In addition, you can press numbers 1-5, for additional characters.
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Halloween Borders by Omega Font Labs
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Halloween Bats by Omega Font Labs
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KR Boo Lane by Kat’s Fun Fonts
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KR Oh Witchy Poo by Kat’s Fun Fonts
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Tricks and Treats Dingbats
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Spiders Club by Manfred Klein
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