15 messy handwritten Halloween fonts
Halloween designs don’t have to be all dripping blood and gothic typefaces... sometimes the best Halloween fonts are the ones that look like they’ve been scrawled by hand.
Handwritten Halloween fonts bring a more personal, organic feel to spooky season. Whether you’re designing party invites, posters, social posts or product packaging, a good hand-drawn typeface can add the perfect mix of eerie charm and character.
From jittery brush strokes to scratchy marker lines, we’ve curated 15 of our favourite spooky, messy and hand-crafted fonts to inspire your Halloween designs.
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Mustkill
Mustkill: A Spine-Chilling Font with Rough Details
Drawing inspiration from the suspenseful world of horror movie posters, Mustkill offers a gripping addition to any design that seeks to evoke intense emotion... a prime choice for projects that require an edgy and dramatic flair.

Manic
Manic is truly a messy handwriting font. It's scribbly, it's scratchy and above all, it's unique.
It has a massive amount of glyphs and ligatures (650+) and each alternate's characters can be mixed and matched to create that extra messy look. Manic looks like real handwriting, like it was scrawled onto paper with a lead pencil.

Spooky Society
Just in time for your halloweeny projects.
Say hello to Spooky Society! A ghoulish, and fun all caps Bitmap SVG font with built-in speckly texture. A Regular Solid version of the font is also included.

Fright Hours
Fright Hours is a great font for use in poster or movie designs that have horror and freaky vibes! With multiple languages supported, this could be your next Halloween event's sign off.

Sticky
It’s a little messy, a little weird and a lot of fun. Perfect for projects that call for a friendly and slightly unusual touch.
Sticky is an unusual but approachable font with a playful edge. Designed to look like genuine handwriting, it’s packed with glyphs, ligatures and alternates to give your text natural flow and plenty of variation. Every letter feels a little different, adding a sense of personality and authenticity.

Zombik
The Zombik Typeface: An Unconventional Charm
The Zombik typeface exhibits a distinctive style that blends playfulness with a hint of nostalgia. Carefully crafted for those who seek an intriguing yet approachable aesthetic, this typeface stands out with its quirky design elements.

Hello October
HELLO OCTOBER – A Spooky Font Get ready to add some spooky charm to your designs with Hello Halloween, a fun and imperfect handwritten font made especially for the Halloween season! 🎃👻
This unique typeface is filled with handmade, messy strokes that give it a playful “spooky but cute” vibe. Perfect for posters, titles, party invitations, stickers, quotes, labels, and any project that needs a Halloween touch.

Wasted Year
Wasted Year is a wonderfully wild messy handwriting font. What makes this font special is the erratic switch between uppercase and lowercase letters.
Wasted Year has no set uppercase or lowercase; it changes based on the letter combinations you enter so you never quite know what you're going to get 😎 Try it out yourself.

Vampliers
Vampliers is a handmade horror font, inspired by the lettering of classic sci-fi and horror film posters. It’s perfect for Halloween party invites, posters, packaging design… Any project you want to give that “vintage spooky” feel, Vampliers will protect your neck.

Infamous
Infamous is a slightly italicised messy handwriting font. It's rough, scratchy and has a unique textured edge.
Perfect for adding a grunge or distressed handwritten look to posters, branding, packaging, or digital designs, Infamous captures the authenticity of real ink on paper.

Voodoo
Voodoo is a scratchy, scribbled and all caps Halloween font.
This spooky handwriting font has regular and bold font weights and includes 40+ matching scribble illustrations (voodoo dolls spiders, ghosts, skulls and more).

Scratch
SCRATCH is an edgy, spooky, awesome handmade font with every letter, number, and punctuation, and glyph you can imagine! Includes multi-language characters!

Prickly Pear
A messy handwritten font with a unique backstory.
Prickly Pear was created on a roadtrip to the Simpson Desert, scribbled in a moving car somewhere in the middle of Australia. The result? A rugged, offbeat typeface that mimics the wild terrain it was created on.

Pandemonium
"Wild uproar, unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos". True to its name, Pandemonium font is exactly that: wild, chaotic and super erratic.
This messy handwriting font doesn't follow any rules. It's skinny, it's wide, it's bold, it's scratchy, it's jagged and unpredictable. And yet somehow, amongst it's disorder, each letter harmonises with the next one.

Gunaguna Horror
Its meaning is derived from the Indonesian term "guna-guna," which refers to "a type of black magic, sorcery, or incantation".
Its warped and jagged characters create a disturbing visual identity, making it the perfect choice for macabre and paranormal projects. With its irregular, sharp, and distorted letterforms, this font creates a disturbing and mysterious atmosphere, perfect for horror and supernatural themes.

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