Hollow Other Mery 2 is a bold, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, halloween, packaging, event flyers, playful, spooky, handmade, retro, carnival, novelty display, themed impact, handmade texture, vintage signage, outlined, wobbly, irregular, textured, decorative.
A decorative serif with heavy outline construction and irregular, hollowed interiors. Strokes appear hand-drawn, with wavy contours, uneven weight distribution, and lumpy terminals that create a lively, slightly distressed rhythm. Letterforms keep a broadly traditional serif skeleton, but the counters and internal cutouts are intentionally inconsistent, producing a bubbly, carved-out look. Spacing and widths vary noticeably across glyphs, contributing to an animated, poster-like texture in lines of text.
Best suited to display settings such as posters, headlines, event flyers, and short punchy phrases where its hollowed, hand-inked character can read clearly. It also works well for themed applications—especially spooky, carnival, or novelty branding—on packaging, labels, and social graphics when set at larger sizes.
The overall tone is mischievous and theatrical—suggesting sideshow signage, Halloween ephemera, or quirky indie packaging. Its imperfect outlines and jittery internal shapes add a whimsical unease that reads as both fun and a little eerie.
The design appears intended to deliver an eye-catching, handcrafted outlined serif with irregular internal knockouts, prioritizing personality and texture over neutrality. Its variable letter widths and animated contours suggest a goal of evoking vintage show-card lettering in a contemporary, quirky form.
The outline-and-fill relationship is a defining feature: many letters show multiple interior voids and pinched cavities that create a strong black/white flicker at display sizes. In continuous text, the busy interiors can become visually noisy, so it benefits from generous tracking and ample line spacing.