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Type specimen
The name in the Harvest colours, both cases, the figures and the harvest extras, then the same layers recoloured as Pumpkin, Graveyard, Witch's brew and Blood moon titles.
A patchwork horror typeface sewn from layers · v1.000
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Ragstitch is a patchwork horror typeface for Halloween games, scarecrow stories and anything sewn together after dark. Every letter is pieced from its own scraps of fabric and held together with seams and whipstitches, in layers you can colour one by one.
Type tester
Try it with your own words
All five layers are stacked here in the Harvest colours, with the burlap and plaid finish from the marketing art. Pick another recipe, switch Effects off for the plain layers, or the layers off for Solid. Lowercase keys type small capitals.
24 px
The Hollow HarvestThe Hollow HarvestThe Hollow HarvestThe Hollow HarvestThe Hollow Harvest
36 px
The Hollow HarvestThe Hollow HarvestThe Hollow HarvestThe Hollow HarvestThe Hollow Harvest
56 px
The Hollow HarvestThe Hollow HarvestThe Hollow HarvestThe Hollow HarvestThe Hollow Harvest
88 px
The Hollow HarvestThe Hollow HarvestThe Hollow HarvestThe Hollow HarvestThe Hollow Harvest
This preview covers Basic Latin and the harvest extras. The full font adds every accented letter and the fractions.
Features
Made for game interfaces
A patchwork horror display family for Halloween and harvest games: five layer fonts that stack into full-colour stitched letters, a one-colour Solid style, and 15 harvest extras.
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Five stackable layers
Shadow, Cloth, Patch A, Patch B and Stitches share every width and kerning pair, so five copies of the same text line up exactly and each takes its own colour.
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A one-colour Solid
The complete letter in a single style with the stitching cut out, for menus, subtitles and anywhere you just want to type and go.
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Every letter its own patchwork
Each letter is pieced from its own patches and seams, so a word looks sewn together by hand rather than stamped from one pattern.
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Capitals & small caps
Capitals on the uppercase keys and small capitals on the lowercase keys, so The Hollow Harvest sets as a proper title. Caps to small caps (c2sc) evens out typed capitals.
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15 harvest extras
A jack-o'-lantern, crow, moon, candy corn, ghost, button, heart, needles, stitched dividers and arrows, typed like any letter and drawn in every layer.
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Two kinds of numbers
Proportional figures by default, and tabular figures for counters, timers and scores that must not jump.
Built-in icons
Fifteen icons you can type
Each icon is a character in the font. Click one to copy it, then paste it into anything set in Ragstitch.
Harvest night
Sewing kit
Case study
How Ragstitch was designed
Why I made it
Halloween games come in two moods: the ones that want to scare you and the ones that want you to carve a pumpkin. Scarecrows, ragdolls, harvest festivals and cozy horror sit in the second, and most horror fonts are built for the first: dripping, scratched or bloody.
I wanted letters that look made rather than wounded, sewn together from scraps of burlap and plaid, a little crooked and very handmade, that can still run a title screen without looking like clip art.
Sewn in layers
A patchwork letter is several fabrics, and a font only has one colour. So Ragstitch comes apart into five layer fonts: a dark Shadow at the bottom, the Cloth that makes up the whole letter, two Patch layers for the pieces sewn in from other fabrics, and the Stitches on top, with the seams, whipstitches and the running stitch round every edge.
All five share every advance width and kerning pair, so five copies of the same text stack exactly. Give each its own colour and the letters come out in full colour; swap the colours and the same title turns from harvest burlap into pumpkin, graveyard grey or a witch's brew.
Patches that never repeat
Every letter is pieced together from its own patches and seams, so the A and the H in a word are cut from different scraps, and the stitched-up feel holds across a whole line instead of repeating every few letters.
For everything that doesn't need five colours there's Solid: the complete letter in one style with the stitching cut out, so the menu, the subtitle and the counters match the title without stacking anything.
Harvest extras
The extras use the layers too: on the jack-o'-lantern the stem is Patch A and the glowing face is Patch B, and the candy corn's three bands are Cloth, Patch A and Patch B, so a stacked pumpkin comes out in full colour.
They sit on their usual Unicode code points, so you type a jack-o'-lantern or a ghost like any other character. Some of those are emoji, and a few apps always swap emoji for colour ones, so the README explains how to insert them from the glyphs panel instead.
In use
What you get
Everything in the download
- Desktop fontsOTF for design apps, TTF for game engines and Windows, all six styles.
- Web fontsWOFF2 for all six styles.
- Game engine packBMFont bitmap fonts (.fnt, .xml and .png atlas) at 32, 64 and 128 px, for Godot, Unity, GameMaker, LibGDX, Phaser, MonoGame and Love2D.
- Photoshop templateAn editable hero layout with live type layers, layer effects and textures.
- READMEHow to stack the layers in Photoshop, Figma, game engines and CSS, four colour recipes, the fabric texture tip and every harvest extra with its code.
- LicenseThe full license in plain language.
- Specimen imageAn overview of the font.
License
Included with every purchase
- Games and apps, embedded for unlimited copies sold
- Logos, merch, videos, streams and print, with no limit on sales
- Installed on unlimited computers: yours, your team's and your company's
- Websites, with unlimited page views and traffic
Ask me first
- Products where customers type their own text in the font
- Resale in asset packs, templates or font collections
Please don't share or resell the font files. For anything the license doesn't cover, email me. idris.hadjoudj@gmail.com
FAQ
Before you buy
How do I stack the layers?
Type your text in Ragstitch Shadow, duplicate it four times in exactly the same position, and set the copies from bottom to top to Cloth, Patch A, Patch B and Stitches. Give each its own colour and keep size, tracking and line spacing identical. The README has four colour recipes and a web example.
Do I have to use all five layers?
No. Ragstitch Solid is the complete letter in one style, ready to use on its own for menus, subtitles and everyday titles.
Does layering work in a game engine?
Yes. Draw five text objects with the same text at the same position, one per layer, each with its own colour. The layers share every width and kerning pair, so they stay lined up in Unity, Godot, Unreal and GameMaker.
Why does the pumpkin show as an emoji?
The harvest extras sit on their usual Unicode code points, and some of those are emoji. A few apps, such as chat apps and some phone keyboards, always swap them for colour emoji. Insert them from the glyphs panel in Photoshop, Illustrator, Affinity or Figma, or copy them from the README, and they show the Ragstitch drawing.
Can I use it in a game I sell, or for its logo?
Yes. Games and apps are included with unlimited copies sold, as long as the font files are packaged inside the game rather than handed to players as installable fonts. Logos and brand identities are included with no extra fee.
Which languages does it support?
Most Latin-script languages, including French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, the Nordic languages, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Croatian, Turkish, the Baltic languages, Maltese, Welsh and Albanian.
Give your game a voice in Ragstitch.
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