Hollow Other Niva 5 is a very bold, normal width, medium contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, children’s, stickers, playful, hand-drawn, quirky, comic, crafty, expressiveness, texture, novelty, informality, attention-grab, bubbly, rounded, chunky, outlined, hollowed.
A chunky, rounded display face with an informal, hand-drawn construction and a pronounced forward slant. Strokes are built as thick outlines with irregular hollowed interiors and scattered knockout shapes, giving each glyph a cut-paper or doodled stencil feel. Terminals are soft and bulbous, counters are often simplified or partially interrupted, and curves dominate over straight segments. Letter widths and internal void patterns vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, creating a lively, uneven rhythm while maintaining consistent overall weight and silhouette.
Best suited to display applications where character and texture are desired: posters, event promos, playful branding, snack or candy packaging, kids-oriented materials, and sticker or merch graphics. It performs especially well in short bursts of text, where the hollowed detailing can be appreciated without compromising legibility.
The font reads as playful and mischievous, with a cartoon-like energy that feels homemade and expressive. Its hollowed, speckled interiors add texture and personality, suggesting a crafty, zany tone rather than a polished corporate voice.
This design appears intended to deliver a bold, illustrative presence with a distinctive hollowed texture, balancing a friendly rounded skeleton with intentionally irregular, hand-crafted interior knockouts. The goal is likely to provide an expressive display voice that stands out through silhouette and internal pattern rather than fine typographic precision.
In text, the dense outlines and busy internal cutouts make the texture visually rich, but they can also reduce clarity at smaller sizes or in long paragraphs. The slant and irregular interior detailing amplify motion and character, especially in short phrases and headings.