Halloween is my favorite holiday. Everyone can dress up like someone else, and then there's the candy, of course. It's also my favorite holiday as a designer. Halloween designs are expected to be wild, with type, colors, themes, and images so far off the beaten path that creating materials for the holiday is at least as fun as snarfing candy corn.

Here's a goodie bag of free Halloween-themed resources for your design tricks!

300+ Halloween Fonts
Over on the Designorati Web site, I've compiled my annual catalog of free Halloween-, horror-, and goth-themed fonts, including dozens of symbol typefaces loaded with dingbats of pumpkins, witches, skulls, ghosts, headstones, moons, spiders, bats, cats, spooky houses, and much, much more. There are more than 300 Halloween fonts available for download individually or in one giant collection.

Halloween Web Media
Spookying up your blog or Website for Halloween? Don't miss these great freebies!

Original Halloween sound effects and music from Free-Loops.com.

"Halloween Skulls" Blogger Layout.

21 More Blogger Halloween layouts.

WordPress Theme "Halloween"

"Happy Halloween" WordPress Theme

"Café Halloween" WordPress Theme

Animated GIFs and Kid-Friendly Animated GIFs

Halloween Photoshop Brushes
Photoshop brushes are a new generation of clipart. They're infinitely flexible with easy resizing and color changes, and they're abundant. Here are the best free Halloween-themed Photoshop brushes I discovered.

Horror I

Dark Wings

Vintage Halloween

Moons

Happy Halloween

Halloween One

Vintage Witches

Realistic Blood

Splatterism

13 Blood & Splatter

Splashy

Blood Spatters & Prints

Jack Skelington

Cobwebs

Stitches & Sutures

Iconic

Go to page 2 for ways to get into thre Halloween spirit when it still feels like summer.