Hollow Other Ilku 4 is a bold, narrow, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: halloween, posters, event flyers, game titles, packaging, spooky, gooey, playful, grungy, cartoonish, horror theme, novelty display, texture effect, hand-drawn feel, headline impact, dripping, outlined, wobbly, distressed, irregular.
A display face built from thick, black outer contours with a largely hollow interior, producing an outlined, cut-out look. Strokes are uneven and hand-drawn in character, with wobbly edges, small notches, and drippy terminals that create a melting silhouette. Counters and inner cutouts are irregular and sometimes blob-like, giving each glyph a slightly different internal rhythm. Proportions are compact and somewhat condensed, with simplified, chunky forms that stay legible at larger sizes while embracing deliberate roughness.
Best suited for short headlines where texture and personality are the primary goals—seasonal Halloween graphics, horror-comedy posters, party invites, haunted-house promotions, and entertainment branding. It can also work for punchy packaging callouts or stickers when printed large enough to preserve the interior cutouts.
The overall tone is eerie yet playful, evoking slime, melting wax, or classic monster-movie lettering. Its irregular outlines and drips add a mischievous, DIY energy that reads more fun-horror than severe.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold, hollow display silhouette with intentionally uneven, dripping contours—prioritizing atmosphere and novelty over typographic neutrality. Its consistent gooey texture across caps, lowercase, and numerals suggests a focus on themed headline use in playful spooky contexts.
The hollow construction creates strong figure/ground contrast on light backgrounds, while the distressed contour detail can visually fill in at small sizes. Numerals and lowercase follow the same gooey outline logic, keeping a consistent texture across the set.