Hollow Other Riku 8 is a very bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font visually similar to 'Dexa Pro' by Artegra, 'Menco' by Kvant, 'Sebino Soft' by Nine Font, and 'Core Sans DS' and 'Core Sans ES' by S-Core (names referenced only for comparison).
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, kids, stickers, playful, handmade, quirky, retro, comic, add texture, feel handmade, be playful, stand out, rounded, chunky, speckled, textured, soft.
A heavy, rounded display face with soft corners and blobby terminals. Strokes are thick and fairly even, with a friendly, compact silhouette and slight per-glyph irregularity that gives it a handmade feel. The defining feature is the consistent field of small internal knockouts—speckles and pockmarks—distributed across each letter and numeral, creating a worn, porous texture while maintaining solid letter shapes and clear counters. Overall spacing and proportions read as casual and approachable, with some width variation contributing to an organic rhythm.
Best suited to short, high-impact text such as posters, headlines, product packaging, labels, and playful branding. The built-in speckled knockout texture makes it especially effective for crafts, novelty goods, party materials, and kid-oriented graphics. It can work in larger subheads, but the texture is most legible and attractive at display sizes.
The speckled cutouts and pillowy forms convey a playful, crafty tone—part comic, part vintage, with a subtly distressed, tactile character. It feels upbeat and informal, suited to messaging that benefits from warmth and personality rather than precision.
Likely designed to deliver a bold, friendly display voice with an integrated porous/speckled knockout effect, combining rounded cartoon-like letterforms with a pre-textured, print-like finish so designers can achieve a playful distressed look without additional effects.
The texture is prominent enough to act as a graphic element, so the font’s personality increases quickly with size. Rounded joins and simplified geometry keep forms recognizable even with the interior perforations, though the speckling can visually thicken in dense settings.