Halloween
Halloween Special: Scary Type – The Sequel
This sequel to the 2008 FontFeed post “Post-Halloween Special: Scary Type” adds a couple of cartoon and pulp-inspired scary fonts to the mix.
Read morePost-Halloween Special: Scary Type
Can typefaces – just the design, devoid of any external context or additional elements – look scary? That is the question I asked myself last week. And sure enough I became so engrossed in my research that I didn’t manage to finish this Halloween Special in time. So here is the compiled and documented list. It is far from definitive, but I hope it is of some use to someone. Better 51 weeks early than one week late. ;)
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