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Dripping Blood Fonts and Scary Halloween Dingbats

By Jacci Howard Bear, About.com

The dripping blood fonts are especially popular around Halloween -- even in black they look like they've been dipped in or written in blood. Add a little graphic enhancement from scary Halloween dingbat fonts and you've got the perfect font for Halloween Web pages, Halloween party posters and invitations or decorations. Browse this alphabetical list.

Hidden Halloween Monsters

Hidden Halloween Monsters© J. James
Monsters aren't just for Halloween but these dingbat fonts have lots of scary, goofy, or silly monsters and creature faces that make good Halloween clip art. Find Scary and Funny Monsters and Creature Faces in Dingbat Fonts such as BitsBats and Brian Powers Doodle.

Hidden Halloween People

Hidden Halloween Dingbats© J. James
Not traditional Halloween fonts, the images in these fonts can still help you carry out a spooky theme. Find Real People, Characters, Entertainers in Dingbat Fonts such as KISS My Font and Anarquia.

Hidden Halloween Symbols

Hidden Halloween Symbols© J. James
Some otherwise tame dingbat fonts full of business-like symbols sometimes contain a few Halloween-appropriate images as well. Find Skulls, Ghosts, Spiders, Pirates in Dingbat Fonts such as Webdings and Eller.

iLL oCtoBer

Free Halloween Font iLL oCtoBer© J. James
Nice selection of traditional Halloween images including witch, black cat, skulls, tombstone, ghosts, and bats in a cut-out style are in this free Halloween font. Also has devilish faces, shapes, and symbols.

iLL oCtoBer 98

Free Halloween Font iLL oCtoBer 98© J. James
Lots of nice simple cut-outs of classic Halloween images and more symbols. If you already have the earlier iLL oCtoBer, you'll find only a few different dings.

MonsterParty

Free Halloween Font MonsterParty© J. James
These are some nicely rendered images of classic monsters, creatures, and actors from the movies and TV.

Pumpkinese

Free Halloween Font Pumpkinese© J. James
Not a particularly exciting font, but readable. Could appeal to young children with its clear letters and simple pumpkin shapes.

Rocky AOE

Sample of Rocky AOE© J. James
Brian Bonislawsky based this bold dripping blood font on the lettering from my favorite cult film, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."

Shlop

Sample of Shlop© J. James
Ray Larabie created this bloody mess, which is actually a very neat, orderly sans serif with a dripping blood problem. The name reminds me of that Big Brother Slop that replaced PB&J as the punishment food on the TV reality show. It could drive anyone to murder and mayhem...

Skullz

Free Halloween Font Skullz© J. James
There's more here than just a skull and crossbones, although there are several of those to choose from. It's a nice collection of skulls and bones in several styles.
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