ILL oCtoBer 98

Ill October 98, by Kees Gajentaan, is a free horror dingbats font with a scrappy Halloween-comic mood. The set shown leans on chunky black silhouettes and rough, hand-cut shapes: bug-eyed little creatures, a skull with a jagged grin, a teardrop form, and a cracked heart that keeps the alphabet feeling eerie but slightly playful.

Use this free font where image-like letters can do the talking: party flyers, zines, poster blurbs, mixtape covers, haunted-house title cards, and short merch graphics. It works best in brief display settings, because the motifs read like tiny horror icons rather than neutral lettering.