Hollow Other Ofba 3 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, signage, packaging, branding, playful, retro, carnival, decorative, lively, attention grab, themed texture, vintage signage, decorative display, inline dots, perforated, slab serif, rounded corners, high impact.
A heavy slab-serif display face with compact proportions and sturdy, rectangular stems. The defining feature is a consistent field of small circular knockouts running through the strokes, producing a perforated, dotted-inline look while preserving a solid outer silhouette. Serifs are blocky and bracketed lightly by rounded joins, with generally smooth curves and softened corners throughout. Counters are generous in rounded letters (O, C, G), and spacing feels even and readable for a decorative style, with clear differentiation between similar forms and a stable baseline.
Best suited to display settings such as posters, headlines, signage, and brand marks where the perforated texture can read clearly. It can add character to packaging, event materials, and themed graphics; for longer passages, larger sizes and generous leading help preserve clarity.
The perforated cutouts give the font a festive, marquee-like personality that reads as playful and showy rather than formal. Its chunky slabs and rhythmic dot pattern suggest vintage signage, theater posters, and novelty packaging, creating an upbeat, attention-grabbing tone.
The design appears intended to deliver an immediately recognizable decorative texture—using evenly spaced circular cutouts inside sturdy slab-serif letterforms—to evoke a vintage, marquee or craft-punch aesthetic while remaining legible in bold display use.
The dot knockouts stay regular in size and distribution across uppercase, lowercase, and numerals, creating strong texture in text blocks. In longer lines the internal pattern becomes a prominent color/texture element, so it tends to work best where the decorative surface is a feature rather than a distraction.