Hollow Other Illo 10 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, kids, event flyers, playful, quirky, handmade, novelty, retro, decoration, texture, playfulness, craft feel, rounded, bubbly, textured, perforated, stencil-like.
A rounded, heavy display face built from soft, tubular strokes with generously curved terminals and simplified, friendly geometry. Each letterform is filled with irregular pebble-like cutouts that read as perforations, creating a consistent hollowed texture across the set. Counters are generally open and the silhouettes stay clear, but the interior knockout pattern adds visual noise and a tactile, crafted feel. Spacing and widths vary naturally, with compact joins and a steady rhythm that favors bold shapes over sharp detail.
Best suited to short display settings where the perforated texture can be appreciated: posters, playful headlines, product packaging, party invitations, and kid-focused or craft-themed graphics. It can work for brief pull quotes or labels, but longer passages benefit from generous size and spacing to keep the textured interiors from feeling busy.
The overall tone is playful and whimsical, with a crafty, doodled character that feels lighthearted and slightly offbeat. The perforated texture suggests a handmade or novelty aesthetic—more fun and decorative than formal—evoking a retro toy-store or party-poster spirit.
The design appears intended to merge a friendly rounded display structure with a decorative hollowed texture, producing a bold silhouette that stays legible while conveying a tactile, handmade surface. The consistent internal cutouts suggest a deliberate pattern-driven identity aimed at attention-grabbing, cheerful applications.
The internal cutouts remain visible even in smaller glyphs, giving the face a distinctive “punched” surface that becomes more pronounced at larger sizes. In text, the texture can reduce smooth readability compared to a solid display face, so the font works best when the pattern is allowed to be part of the message.