Hollow Other Tifo 5 is a bold, wide, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, party invites, event signage, playful, spooky, festive, handcrafted, textured, decorative impact, themed display, textured look, stencil feel, stencil, cutout, decorative, chunky, blocky.
A heavy, blocky roman with simple, upright construction and rounded bowls, featuring prominent internal cutouts that read like irregular stencil knockouts. Strokes are thick and confident, with relatively open counters and a steady baseline rhythm; the distinctive patterning appears inside stems and bowls rather than along the outer contour. Terminals and joins stay mostly straightforward, while the interior texture varies by glyph, creating a lively, handcrafted feel without breaking overall legibility at display sizes.
Best suited to short, prominent copy such as posters, headlines, event signage, and packaging where the internal cutouts can read clearly. It can also work for themed invitations, labels, and social graphics, especially when a decorative, craft-like texture is desired over neutral text performance.
The carved, perforated interior texture gives the face a playful, slightly spooky tone—evoking cut-paper crafts, Halloween signage, or festive props. It feels bold and attention-grabbing, with a quirky, theatrical personality that turns ordinary words into decorative shapes.
The design appears intended to merge a sturdy display skeleton with a distinctive hollowed texture, producing a stencil-like novelty face that remains readable while adding visual interest. Its goal is less about typographic neutrality and more about giving headlines a patterned, cutout character.
The strongest visual signature is the repeated triangular/irregular knockout motif, which creates a speckled negative-space pattern inside letters and numerals. In longer text, the texture becomes a consistent surface treatment, so spacing and line breaks benefit from generous display setting to keep the pattern from visually clumping.