Hollow Other Melo 7 is a bold, wide, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, stickers, logos, playful, handmade, rugged, retro, comic, texture, distress, novelty, display, outlined, textured, stamped, irregular, chunky.
A chunky, wide display face built from heavy outlined letterforms with hollow interiors. The counters and bowls are filled with irregular cutouts that read like worn ink, woodgrain, or stencil scuffs, creating a lively, broken texture inside otherwise solid, rounded shapes. Strokes are generally monoline at the outline level, with softened corners and slightly uneven inner edges that give the set a handmade rhythm. Spacing and widths vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, reinforcing an informal, poster-like cadence.
Best suited to short, attention-grabbing text such as headlines, posters, labels, packaging, and logo wordmarks where the interior texture can be appreciated. It can also work for playful editorial callouts or event graphics, especially when a stamped or handmade aesthetic is desired.
The overall tone is playful and crafty, with a tactile, distressed feel that suggests something printed, stamped, or carved rather than digitally pristine. Its bold outline and busy interior texture add a cartoonish, nostalgic energy while keeping the color of the text light enough to feel airy.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold display silhouette while introducing character through hollowed, distressed interior cutouts. It balances legibility with a deliberately imperfect texture to evoke tactile printing or craft-made signage.
The textured hollows are consistent across uppercase, lowercase, and numerals, so the font maintains its signature look in longer passages, though the interior detail becomes visually dense at smaller sizes. Round letters (O, Q, C, G) showcase the strongest contrast between smooth outer contours and irregular internal knockout patterns.