Hollow Other Ethu 1 is a bold, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, headlines, kids, branding, playful, quirky, whimsical, handmade, retro, attention grabbing, decorative texture, handmade feel, friendly display, novelty appeal, rounded, blobby, inky, organic, cutout.
A heavy, rounded display face with soft, blobby contours and irregular, organic curves. Strokes are thick and high-contrast in places due to tapered joins and swollen terminals, giving letters a buoyant, hand-drawn rhythm. Distinctive interior knockouts—small oval and slit-like cutouts—appear throughout counters and along strokes, creating a hollowed, inky texture. Spacing feels moderately open for such a heavy design, and widths vary noticeably across glyphs, reinforcing an informal, lively cadence.
Best suited to large-scale display uses where the interior cutouts and rounded silhouettes can be clearly seen—posters, playful branding, packaging, stickers, event titles, and kids-oriented or novelty applications. It can also work for short bursts of text such as captions or pull quotes when set generously with comfortable tracking and leading.
The overall tone is playful and mischievous, like marker lettering with a cartoon sensibility. The cutout details add a craft/printmaking feel that reads as fun and slightly eccentric rather than formal. It conveys a friendly, retro-leaning personality with plenty of character.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold, characterful display voice by combining chunky, rounded letterforms with decorative hollowed details. Its irregular cutouts and bouncy proportions suggest a deliberate move away from clean geometry toward a handmade, illustrative texture that stands out in attention-grabbing contexts.
Uppercase forms are simplified and rounded, while lowercase shows more idiosyncratic shapes (notably the single-storey forms and the compact, bouncy bowls). Numerals match the chunky silhouette and keep the same hollowed texture, with especially prominent counters in 8 and 9. The interior cutouts become a defining texture at larger sizes and may visually fill in at small sizes.