Outline Wuba 15 is a very light, wide, low contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, invitations, book covers, victorian, whimsical, antique, storybook, hand-drawn, display impact, vintage revival, ornamental styling, engraved effect, inline, decorative, ornate, engraved, flared serifs.
A decorative outline serif with inline cutouts that create a hollow, engraved look. Strokes are drawn as delicate contours with consistent thinness, while many letters include internal vertical striping or small counters that emphasize the outline construction. Proportions lean narrow-to-moderate with tall ascenders and short lowercase bodies, giving the text a slightly spindly, vintage rhythm. Serifs are small and flared, terminals are gently rounded, and curves (notably in C, G, O, Q, and numerals) keep an even, carefully traced perimeter that reads like pen-drawn signage.
Best suited for display typography where the outline-and-inline detailing can remain crisp—posters, headlines, boutique packaging, invitations, and book cover titling. It can also work for short pull quotes or labels when set with ample size and spacing to preserve the interior cutouts.
The overall tone feels antique and playful, evoking old shop lettering, Victorian-era printed ephemera, and storybook chapter titles. The hollow outlines and inline detailing add a crafty, whimsical character that feels more decorative than utilitarian.
The design appears intended to reinterpret classic serif letterforms as an outline display face with engraved-style interior striping, prioritizing decorative impact and a vintage print aesthetic over continuous text readability.
Legibility holds up in display sizes, but the fine outline construction and interior detailing can visually fill in at smaller sizes or on low-resolution outputs. Uppercase forms feel especially emblematic and ornamental, while the lowercase introduces quirky, slightly calligraphic touches (such as the looped descenders and the distinctive g and j).