Hollow Other Upwy 1 is a very bold, wide, high contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, album art, game titles, packaging, gothic, quirky, spiky, playful, theatrical, standout display, themed branding, gothic flavor, textural cutouts, display, angular, blackletter-like, notched, cartoonish.
A heavy, poster-like display face built from chunky, upright letterforms with slightly irregular widths and a tall lowercase structure. The silhouettes are blocky and squared, but the tops frequently break into pointed, crown-like notches that create a spiky skyline across words. Inside each glyph, thin knocked-out channels and small cut-ins carve bright, ribbon-like counters through the dense black shapes, producing a lively high-ink/low-ink contrast and a distinctly hollowed texture. Corners often sharpen into wedges and hooks, while curves are kept tight and compact, giving lines of text a rhythmic, jagged cadence.
Best suited for short, high-impact settings such as headlines, posters, event flyers, game or comic titles, album art, and bold packaging. It can also work for spooky or fantasy-themed branding and merchandise, especially where a distinctive wordmark-like texture is desired.
The overall tone feels gothic and mischievous—part medieval display, part cartoon menace. The crown points and cutout interiors add drama and attitude, making the font read as bold and expressive rather than neutral or utilitarian.
The design appears intended to merge a dense blackletter-inspired mass with unconventional internal knockouts, creating a dramatic display face that stays legible through simplified geometry while adding character through pointed terminals and carved interior shapes.
The cutouts are consistently narrow compared to the stroke mass, so the font reads best at larger sizes where the internal channels remain clear. The slightly uneven widths and the serrated top edges create strong word-shape personality, which can look intentionally chaotic in continuous text.