Hollow Other Itmo 8 is a bold, normal width, very high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, logos, signage, playful, carnival, vintage, quirky, whimsical, novelty display, retro signage, playful branding, decorative texture, bubble, outlined, inline, rounded, decorative.
A decorative display face built from rounded, balloon-like letterforms with soft terminals and frequent ball-ended caps on stems. The strokes read as an outlined silhouette with an additional inner inline/contour, creating a hollowed, layered look and strong figure–ground activity. Curves are generous and slightly irregular in rhythm, with compact counters and small apertures in several letters, while some glyphs show deliberately eccentric joins and spur-like details. Overall spacing feels open and bouncy, and the numeral set matches the same puffy, double-contour construction.
Best suited to display settings such as posters, event titles, storefront-style signage, packaging callouts, and logo wordmarks where character and texture are desired. It works especially well for short phrases and branding accents rather than long-form text.
The font conveys a lighthearted, showy tone—evoking signage, party graphics, and retro novelty printing. Its bubbly outlines and ornamental inlines feel theatrical and upbeat, with a hand-drawn charm that reads more playful than formal.
The design appears intended to provide a high-impact novelty look by combining rounded, friendly skeletons with a hollow/inline treatment that mimics layered sign paint or embossed lettering. The slightly idiosyncratic detailing prioritizes personality and decorative presence over strict typographic neutrality.
The double-line construction and small internal spaces can visually fill in at small sizes or on low-resolution output, so it benefits from generous sizing and clean reproduction. The most even results come from short words and headings where the decorative inner contour can be appreciated.