Author's note

Calaveras 323 font by 323 Prod. turns classic calavera engravings into a row of detailed skeleton scenes, each one packed with hats, instruments, and swirling textures. The black‑ink illustrations feel like woodcuts, giving a gritty but festive Día de los Muertos mood that still reads clearly at medium and large sizes. This free font works well for posters, Halloween flyers, gig handbills, themed menus, party invitations, and bold T‑shirt graphics.

Use Calaveras 323 when typography alone isn’t enough and you need instant storytelling in a single glyph. The dense compositions reward oversized use, while pairing nicely with a plain sans serif for titles or captions. This free font is also great for stickers, zines, packaging concepts, and quick mood boards where you want macabre energy without detailed illustration work.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
©1999 323 Prod. www.gringosno.com
Font family
Calaveras 323
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Calaveras 323
Full font name
Calaveras 323
Postscript font name
Calaveras

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created2000-01-11
Revision1
Glyph count29
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsEmbedding restricted (not allowed!)
Family classSymbolic
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Width typeNormal
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureRegular
StyleUpright
Stroke weightBook, text, regular, etc.
PitchNot monospaced
Symbol setWindows 3.1 ANSI