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Updated on October 1, 2024
Free Halloween Fonts. 10 free personal and commercial use Halloween fonts to use in your projects for Halloween and spooky season.
When creating free printables, one of my favorite things is to find fun fonts to use in my projects. Choosing the right font can really make a project stand out.
I often work in Photoshop Elements to create my printables, but I also do many projects using my Cricut machine. With Cricut Design Space, you can use any font you have downloaded on your computer for your projects.
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You can use these chosen fonts in various projects, such as greeting cards, personal projects, logo designs, wedding invitations, poster designs, business cards, social media posts, and packaging designs.
Favorite Places to Find Fonts
Most of these websites offer both free fonts and paid fonts. All of them offer fonts for commercial use except for Da Font.
Free Halloween Fonts
Below, I am sharing some of the best free fonts for Halloween crafting. These are the perfect fonts for all your spooky projects. I have noted whether the fonts are available for commercial or personal use.
CF Halloween
This horror font includes dripping letters and a pumpkin for the letter O. Some of the letters have additional elements, like spider webs. Free for personal use.
Headhunter
Make no bones about it: Headhunter is the perfect font for spooky Halloween projects. Free for commercial Use.
Lovecraftian Horrors
Embrace the eerie allure of the unknown with the ‘Lovecraftian Horrors’ font. Crafted with eldritch elegance, this typeface lets you conjure cosmic horror on book covers, movie posters, and digital designs. Free for personal use. Purchase commercial use license.
Secret Halloween
Secret Halloween is a scary, creepy, quirky, and cool display font. You can add this font to October party invitations, cards, greeting cards, social media posts, or anything related to Halloween. Free for personal use. Purchase commercial use license.
Scary Halloween
This Halloween font is fun for Halloween party fliers, signs, or whatever spooky idea you may conjure up. It is for personal use.
Shlop
Shlop is a wicked, oozing horror font. Create your most revolting, vile projects with this font. For commercial use.
Secret Midnight
Secret Midnight is an eerie font covered in spiderwebs and spiders. Free for personal use. Purchase commercial use license.
Hallowed Grounds
Hallowed Grounds is a font inspired by Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House. The television series follows a fractured family that must confront memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it. Free for commercial use.
Black Widow
Black Widow is a creepy crawly terror font. Free for personal use.
Midnight Minutes
Midnight Minutes is a gothic display font with a mystical feel. It features curly and sharp characters. Fall in love with its magical appearance! Free for personal use. Purchase a commercial use license.
Fonts FAQs:
- Easy Installation Instructions
- Download the font.
- Unzip the font files. Right-click on the zipped font folder, and click “Extract All”.
- Open the folder with the font files.
- Right-click on the font file and choose “Install.”
- TTF or OTF?
- TTF stands for TrueType font. Apple and Microsoft worked together to create these fonts in the late 1980s.
- OTF stands for OpenType font. Adobe and Microsoft collaborated in 2001 to create these fonts, with the added benefits of glyphs, ligatures, and alternate characters.
- For non-designers, either type will work, but OTF fonts are the more robust.
- Commercial or Personal Use?
- Fonts for personal use can only be used to create projects for yourself.
- Commercial fonts can be used to create projects to sell or earn money. Each font comes with a commercial license explaining how it can be used.
- How can I find a font I saw in a project?
- Use a browser extension like WhatFont or a website like What Font Is.
- Types of Fonts
- Serif
- Sans Serif
- Script
- Handwritten
- Display
- Monospaced
- How to Access Glyphs (on PC)
- Open the Character Map > Select the font > Group by Unicode Subrange > Private Use Characters
- Test Fonts
- Most font sites have a custom sample text box where you can enter words to see how the font will look before you download or purchase it.
- You can test how all the fonts you have downloaded to your computer will look in your project by using the website: Wordmark.it
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