Hollow Other Ibko 2 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, book covers, headlines, craft branding, playful, handcrafted, whimsical, storybook, quirky, add texture, signal playfulness, evoke handmade, create character, decorative, textured, inked, irregular, cutout.
A decorative serif with hand-drawn, slightly wobbly outlines and gently irregular stroke endings. The letterforms mix soft curves and narrow stems with a modest serif structure, giving a vintage, print-like silhouette while staying casual. Strokes are visibly “hollowed” with scattered internal cutouts and pitted voids that create a mottled texture across bowls and stems. Spacing and widths feel uneven by design, producing a lively rhythm and an organic, handmade color in text.
Best suited to display settings where its hollowed texture can be appreciated—posters, packaging, labels, book covers, and short headlines. It can work for longer passages at comfortable sizes, but the internal cutouts and uneven rhythm make it more effective for expressive editorial callouts, children’s or playful themes, and characterful branding accents.
The overall tone is playful and eccentric, with a crafty, storybook sensibility. Its speckled cutouts read as charmingly imperfect—more doodled than engineered—adding a light, humorous character that feels friendly rather than formal.
Likely designed to deliver a handmade, vintage-leaning serif look with a distinctive cutout texture, prioritizing personality and surface detail over neutrality. The goal appears to be a cohesive decorative system that stays readable while adding a tactile, ink-worn effect.
In running text the texture becomes a prominent pattern, especially in vertical strokes and enclosed counters, so the font reads best when the cutouts have room to show. The numerals and capitals carry the same irregular internal detailing, keeping a consistent decorative voice across the set.