Author's note

Darah Erc by The Monotype Corporation is a free horror display font with heavy, dripping letters that look wet and slightly unruly. The rough, swollen shapes and hanging ends give the font a splattered slasher-poster mood, while the blunt weight keeps the wordforms bold rather than fussy.

It fits naturally on Halloween flyers, horror game logos, B-movie cover lines, haunted house posters, and spooky party invites, where a free font with this much ooze can carry the whole headline. Use it in short titles, packaging callouts, or title cards when you want the letters themselves to feel messy and menacing.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
Typeface © The Monotype Corporation plc. Data © The Monotype Corporation plc/Type Solutions Inc. 1990-1992. All Rights Reserved
Font family
Darah Erc
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Darah Erc :2008-2009
Full font name
Darah Erc
Name table version
Version 1 December 2008-January 2009
Postscript font name
DarahErc
Trademark notice
Arial® Trademark of The Monotype Corporation plc registered in the US Pat & TM Off. and elsewhere.
Manufacturer name
Monotype Typography
Designer
Monotype Type Drawing Office - Robin Nicholas, Patricia Saunders 1982
Description
Contemporary sans serif design, Arial contains more humanist characteristics than many of its predecessors and as such is more in tune with the mood of the last decades of the twentieth century. The overall treatment of curves is softer and fuller than in most industrial style sans serif faces. Terminal strokes are cut on the diagonal which helps to give the face a less mechanical appearance. Arial is an extremely versatile family of typefaces which can be used with equal success for text setting in reports, presentations, magazines etc, and for display use in newspapers, advertising and promotions.

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created1990-08-06
Revision3
Glyph count98
Units per Em2048
Embedding rightsEmbedding for permanent installation
Family classNo classification
WeightBold
WidthMedium (normal)
Width typeNormal
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs
Pattern natureRegular
StyleUpright
Stroke weightBook, text, regular, etc.
PitchNot monospaced