Eater

Try Eater

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Eater Regular

About Eater

Eater is a display typeface made for horror. The underlying letters are heavy serif capitals, but every outline is eaten away and sprouts thin spikes and barbs, as if something were growing out of the type; the official description jokes that the font carries a rare disease that creeps along while its user is asleep. There is no true lowercase. The lowercase keys hold another set of capitals with their own pattern of damage, so alternating the two cases keeps repeated letters from looking identical. Numerals are drawn as uneven old-style figures, and punctuation is distressed to match. Eater has one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 345 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended characters. The listing and the copyright notice credit Typomondo; no individual designer is given in the font's name table. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Eater works

Halloween posters and invitations

Barbed, decaying capitals set a party title in the visual language of horror.

Horror film, game and podcast titles

A short title in Eater signals the genre before any image appears.

Haunted-house and escape-room graphics

Large capitals with spikes work on door signs, tickets and warning notices for themed attractions.

Seasonal product labels

A limited Halloween edition can carry its name in Eater while the regular text stays in a plain face.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Eater

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Eater on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Eater";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Eater-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Eater", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Eater with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Eater&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Capitals only, in two versions

Uppercase and lowercase keys both give capitals; the two sets differ in their spikes and wear.

One style

Eater has Regular 400 only.

Detail needs size

The thin barbs are the point of the design and disappear at small sizes.

FAQs

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All display fonts