Hollow Other Wofi 5 is a bold, normal width, very high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, album covers, magazine display, titles, experimental, glitchy, editorial, dramatic, artsy, deconstruction, texture, shock, editorial edge, visual contrast, cutout, stencil-like, sliced, layered, collage-like.
A display serif built from heavy, high-contrast letterforms that are repeatedly interrupted by irregular interior voids. The silhouette reads as sharp and classical at a distance—straight stems, crisp terminals, and wedge-like serifs—while the counters and bowls are partially “eaten away” by fluid, organic cutouts and occasional hairline slashes. The result is a broken, layered texture within otherwise rigid geometry, with uneven internal rhythm from glyph to glyph that emphasizes a constructed, deconstructed look.
Best suited for large-scale applications where its internal cutouts can be appreciated: posters, punchy headlines, cultural event branding, album/film titles, and fashion/editorial layouts. It can work as a short-text accent font paired with a calmer body typeface, rather than for long passages.
The overall tone is tense and art-forward: refined and formal on the outside, disruptive and distorted on the inside. It suggests editorial provocation and experimental fashion/arts culture, with a glitchy, sabotaged elegance that feels intentionally unstable and attention-seeking.
The design appears intended to hybridize a traditional high-contrast serif structure with disruptive internal carving, creating a dramatic display face that reads as classic from afar but reveals an experimental, distressed construction up close.
The cutouts vary in size and placement, creating strong black/white flicker and unpredictable negative shapes that can merge visually at smaller sizes. In text, the interior knockouts create a continuous banding and fragmentation effect across the line, prioritizing texture and impact over smooth readability.