Hollow Other Elky 1 is a bold, narrow, high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, kids, stickers, playful, handmade, quirky, youthful, retro, hand-lettered look, friendly display, textured strokes, quirky character, rounded, bubbly, markerlike, cutout, cartoonish.
A chunky, rounded display face with simplified letterforms and an irregular, hand-drawn rhythm. Strokes are heavy and softly contoured, with occasional inner knockouts and small cut-in voids that create a hollowed, ink-trap-like texture inside bowls and terminals. Curves dominate, joins are blunted, and counters tend to be compact, giving the design a dense, friendly silhouette. Spacing reads slightly uneven in a deliberate way, reinforcing a casual, drawn-by-hand impression across both uppercase and lowercase, with similarly informal numerals.
Best suited for short-form display settings such as headlines, posters, playful packaging, labels, and sticker-style graphics where a friendly, handmade voice is desirable. It also works well for children’s materials and casual social graphics, especially when set with generous size and spacing to let the interior cutouts read clearly.
The overall tone is playful and approachable, with a doodled, cartoon-like warmth that feels casual rather than formal. The internal cutouts add a quirky, crafty character, suggesting a fun, imperfect energy suited to lighthearted communication.
The design appears intended to evoke a hand-lettered marker or brush feel while adding visual interest through hollowed interior details. Its simplified geometry, soft corners, and textured knockouts prioritize personality and charm over strict uniformity, aiming for an expressive display look.
The hollowed details appear inconsistently from glyph to glyph, acting more as expressive texture than a strict system, which increases charm but makes the font feel more illustrative than typographically neutral. The rounded forms and heavy weight keep it legible at display sizes, while the irregularities become more noticeable as sizes get smaller.