Hollow Other Ibko 9 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, children’s, party invites, playful, whimsical, hand-drawn, storybook, crafty, add texture, feel handmade, create whimsy, stand out, decorative, rounded, bouncy, textured, irregular.
A lively, hand-drawn display face with rounded, slightly wobbly strokes and an overall right-leaning, italic rhythm. The letterforms use open, hollowed counters and irregular internal perforations that read like cutouts, creating a textured, stippled look inside thicker strokes. Terminals are soft and blunted, curves are generous, and baseline behavior feels gently uneven, reinforcing an informal, handmade character. Proportions vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, giving the set an organic, variable-width cadence that’s more expressive than systematic.
Best suited for short, attention-grabbing text such as headlines, posters, greeting cards, party invitations, playful packaging, and kid-oriented or craft-themed branding. It can also work for pull quotes or section headers where its interior texture has room to breathe.
The font conveys a playful, crafty tone—like doodled signage or storybook lettering with a quirky, cut-paper texture. Its decorative hollow detailing adds a cheerful, animated feel that suits lighthearted and imaginative themes rather than formal communication.
The design appears intended as a decorative, hand-lettered display font that combines a friendly, rounded skeleton with distinctive hollow and perforated interior detailing to create instant personality and texture.
The internal cutouts create strong visual color and can appear busy at smaller sizes, while at larger sizes they become a defining texture. Round characters (like O/Q and numerals) emphasize the hollow/perforated motif, and the italic slant adds momentum to lines of text.