Hollow Other Ibwa 5 is a light, narrow, very high contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, kids, crafts, playful, hand-drawn, whimsical, casual, quirky, hand-lettered look, textural outline, playful display, informal voice, monoline feel, outlined, sketchy, bouncy, irregular.
A lively outlined face with hollowed strokes and a pen-drawn, slightly jittery contour. Letterforms are slender and vertically oriented, with rounded terminals and uneven stroke rhythm that reads like quick marker or gel-pen lettering. The internal knockout follows the outer contour rather than behaving like a traditional inline, creating irregular white channels that vary from glyph to glyph. Curves are soft and open, counters are generous, and spacing feels loose and conversational, with mild baseline and width irregularity reinforcing the handmade character.
Works best for headlines, short blurbs, and large callouts where its hollowed outline and sketch texture can be appreciated. It fits playful packaging, craft and DIY materials, kids-focused communications, event posters, and social graphics that benefit from a casual hand-lettered feel. For longer passages, it’s better used sparingly as an accent due to its animated rhythm and outlined stroke construction.
The overall tone is friendly and informal, leaning into a whimsical, doodled personality rather than precision. Its hollowed, sketch-like construction gives it a crafty, zine-like energy that feels approachable and a bit mischievous. The font reads as expressive and lighthearted, suited to playful messaging over serious or corporate voice.
The design appears intended to emulate quick hand lettering with a hollow/knockout stroke treatment, prioritizing personality and visual texture over strict typographic regularity. Its consistent use of outlined forms and irregular inner channels suggests a deliberate effort to create a light, airy display style that feels drawn rather than engineered.
In text, the outlined construction stays prominent and creates a textured color on the page, with the white interior channels producing a distinctive airy sparkle. Numerals and capitals keep the same hand-rendered inconsistency, and rounded forms like O, Q, and 8 emphasize the bubbly, cartoonish side of the design. The face is most visually coherent at display sizes where the interior cutouts and double-line drawing can be clearly perceived.