Halloween holiday fonts for creative activities and resources

Fonts are fun. There are thousands of fonts for any creative choice. During the holiday season, I like to use fonts to create my products for the classroom. Posters with vocabulary for the season are a great way to introduce and familiarize students with new vocabulary. They make a great reference for students to use as they write their own scary stories for the classroom.

I want to review five display fonts for you that I think are great to use in a variety of projects. Read my previous article on Fun Fonts for the classroom if you want to learn more about fonts and the difference between display, decorative, and script fonts. I also have an article that covers the installation of fonts for Windows and Mac.

The fonts in this review are available on a site called Creative Fabrica. Creative Fabrica has many wonderful resources created by independent artists and creatives. The fonts are relatively inexpensive to purchase. Most times you can purchase them for less than five dollars.

1. Scary Ghost

The font has lots of swirls and serifs that add to the traditional Halloween look. The image above is a preview of the font from the artist's post. Below I created a poster with common Halloween vocabulary. Display fonts work best for titles and headings. I added some clipart to liven the poster a little.

2. Night Mare

The Night Mare font has the traditional spooky look. The font has more curves in the strokes and less in the serifs. I like the accompanying dingbats. Dingbats are shapes assigned to keystrokes instead of letters. The dingbats include spiders, bats, and webs. I used the web to add some dimension to the text. In this case, I added a text box and layered it with one of the letters. I used the dingbats to add images to the poster. This makes it much easier to design different graphic elements without the need to find and bring in different resources like clip art.

3. Scary Halloween Trio

This font uses a block font with Halloween shapes in select areas of the letters. The shapes include ghosts, skeletons, and pumpkins. The font trio includes two other typefaces. The second font option includes the same block style letters in outline format. The outlines are filled with webs. The third option includes Halloween shape dingbats. I used all three typefaces to design the different information and graphic elements.

This makes it easy to design without having to collect and bring in different graphic elements. In this example, the different graphic elements work together to create something that has unity and connection to other elements in the design.

4. Sticky Blood

This font is designed to look like it is melting or dripping. It looks great with the right tone of red. This font only has one typeface member in its family. The blood-like ooze is what sets this font apart from the others. I added some clipart images to get students’ attention.

5. Retro Spooky

This is a fun font with three variations or typefaces in the font family. The first variation is a font that can be used for any purpose. It can be combined with the other two to create something fun and spooky. The second typeface adds pumpkins to the upper case letters and skulls to the lower case letters. The third typeface varies the use of pumpkins and skulls in both upper case and lower case letters.

You will need to combine different typefaces to create some interesting designs. It takes a small amount of work but the results can be nice.

Use the links below to see the other poster images and access the resources used to create the posters. Don’t want to spend the time creating a poster? You can download a free poster or purchase one of my other posters. The posters are formatted to print 24 by 36 inches.

I have created several resources for students. These resources include Halloween word search puzzles, word jumble puzzles, and bingo cards. Use the links below to purchase these resources and support me so I can bring more content for educators.

Halloween word search puzzles

Halloween word jumble/scramble puzzles

Halloween Bingo Sheets

Free poster

Halloween posters (Download PDF and print on poster printer)