Hollow Other Elky 4 is a bold, narrow, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, children’s media, branding, playful, handmade, retro, quirky, friendly, whimsy, handmade charm, display impact, retro flavor, texture via cutouts, rounded, bulbous, soft, cartoonish, knockout details.
A compact, rounded display face with thick, brush-like strokes and lively, uneven contours. Many glyphs include small internal knockouts and pinched openings that create a hollowed, cut-out feel, especially where strokes meet or terminals swell. Counters are generally tight and irregular, curves are slightly lopsided in a deliberate way, and joins look hand-shaped rather than mechanically perfect. Proportions vary from letter to letter, giving the alphabet a bouncy rhythm while maintaining a consistent overall heft and a mostly vertical stance.
Best suited to short-to-medium display settings such as posters, playful branding, product packaging, editorial titles, and kids-oriented or whimsical communications. It can also work for pull quotes or signage where its cut-out texture and chunky silhouettes remain clear at larger sizes.
The font reads as cheerful and informal, with a crafty, doodled energy. Its bubbly forms and quirky internal cutouts suggest a vintage-cartoon or handmade poster tone—more fun and characterful than formal or technical.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold, friendly display voice with a handcrafted look, using irregular stroke edges and internal cutouts to add texture and personality. Its goal is immediate visual charm and distinctive character rather than quiet readability in long passages.
At text sizes the interior knockouts and narrow apertures can visually fill in, so the design tends to perform best when given room to breathe. Numerals and punctuation match the same rounded, hand-drawn logic, helping headings feel cohesive across mixed-case settings.