Halloween fonts. 8 free spooky faces you can print and sell.

Rubik Wet Paint scores 9.31 in the lab’s spooky style, the most of the 8, ahead of Eater at 7.34 and Butcherman at 7.02.

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Every Halloween pick drips, scratches or creeps, and its licence covers party invitations and decorations as well as shirts and signs you sell.

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Rubik Wet Paint

Rubik Wet Paint · free

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Why Rubik Wet Paint fits Halloween: spooky score 9.31, 1 weight, and no italics.

Print for Halloween: invitations, flyers and decorations.

Selling for Halloween: shirts, signs and Cricut cuts sold.

Can I use them for party flyers and shirts I sell?

Licence verdicts for 8 free Halloween fonts
Free fontLicencePrintSelling
Rubik Wet PaintOFL 1.1✓✓
EaterOFL 1.1✓✓
ButchermanOFL 1.1✓✓
NosiferOFL 1.1✓✓
Trade WindsOFL 1.1✓✓
CreepsterOFL 1.1✓✓
Jolly LodgerOFL 1.1✓✓
FrijoleOFL 1.1✓✓
  • Print (invitations, flyers and decorations): yes for all 8, OFL 1.1 Condition 5.
  • Selling (shirts, signs and Cricut cuts sold): yes for all 8, OFL 1.1 Condition 5; the font file itself may not be sold on its own (Condition 1).
  • OFL 1.1 text

Which of the Halloween fonts to pick

Pick Rubik Wet Paint for invitation headings: its spooky score 9.31 is the highest here. Eater suits flyer titles with a spooky score 7.34, while Butcherman is a choice for decoration lettering with a spooky score 7.02. For shirt text and signs sold, consider Nosifer, which has a spooky score 5.55 and an OFL 1.1 licence.

Setting Halloween lettering

Rubik Wet Paint has the highest spooky score here, 9.31, while Frijole at 1.27 has the lowest. Try the title in both before choosing the Halloween lettering.

Preview Rubik Wet Paint and Eater at the size of your actual flyer, including its time and place. Choose a plainer face for any party detail that becomes difficult to read.

What the rule selected: the 8 Halloween fonts and their numbers

8 of the 10 fonts that pass the rule for Halloween, out of 1,674 checked, the most typical first
Free fontspooky scoreWeightsItalicsGoogle Fonts rank
Rubik Wet Paint9.3110148
Eater7.3410169
Butcherman7.02101484
Nosifer5.5510763
Trade Winds4.5710836
Creepster4.310200
Jolly Lodger2.2210952
Frijole1.2710746

Halloween: selection rules

Halloween fonts: questions

Which free font is best for Halloween?

Rubik Wet Paint, with the highest spooky score of the 8, 9.31; Eater follows at 7.34 and Butcherman at 7.02.

Are these Halloween fonts free for print and products you sell?

All 8, from Rubik Wet Paint to Frijole, are under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows print (invitations, flyers and decorations) and products you sell (shirts, signs and Cricut cuts sold).

Can I sell Halloween shirts made with these fonts?

Yes: all 8 are under OFL 1.1, which lets you sell shirts, signs and Cricut cuts made with them; what you may not sell is the font file on its own (Condition 1).

Which of these Halloween fonts is the most used?

Rubik Wet Paint, at rank 148 on Google Fonts, then Eater at 169; Butcherman is the least used of the 8, at 1484, and all of them come in one weight.

How were these Halloween fonts chosen?

Halloween wants dripping, scratchy and creepy letters: the lab’s spooky style. 10 of the 1,674 free fonts we checked pass that rule for Halloween. The 8 here are the most typical of the style, from Rubik Wet Paint at spooky score 9.31 down to Frijole at 1.27, one font a family.

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