Hollow Other Illy 8 is a regular weight, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, logos, stickers, grunge, playful, handcrafted, spooky, retro, add texture, create novelty, evoke distress, boost personality, outlined, textured, irregular, decorative, cartoonish.
A decorative outlined face with open, hollow counters and a consistent black perimeter stroke. Each glyph is filled with irregular, organic knockouts that create a mottled, stone-like texture, while the exterior contours stay relatively clean and rounded. Proportions lean broad with generous bowls and softened corners; terminals are generally blunt, and curves dominate over sharp joins. The texture varies from letter to letter, giving the set a lively, imperfect rhythm that reads best at display sizes.
Best suited for short, attention-grabbing text such as posters, event headlines, cover art, packaging accents, and logo wordmarks where the textured hollows can be appreciated. It also works well for themed materials—novelty, seasonal, or playful branding—especially when set large with ample spacing.
The overall tone feels mischievous and slightly eerie, like hand-stamped lettering or cut-paper shapes with a distressed surface. The mottled interior gives a tactile, worn character that suggests vintage novelty printing and Halloween-adjacent whimsy rather than formal clarity.
The design appears intended to combine a friendly, rounded display structure with an irregular hollow texture to create instant personality. The consistent outline provides strong silhouette recognition, while the unpredictable internal cutouts add a handcrafted, distressed effect that makes simple words feel illustrated.
Because the interior knockouts are high-frequency and irregular, small sizes can visually clog or shimmer, while larger sizes showcase the pattern and the hollow construction. Numerals and uppercase have a bold, sign-like presence, and the lowercase maintains the same outlined logic with similarly textured interiors.