Hollow Other Etse 6 is a very bold, normal width, high contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, album art, event promos, playful, spooky, quirky, retro, handmade, textured display, themed branding, handmade feel, attention grab, blobby, rounded, drippy, eroded, textured.
A very heavy, right-leaning display face built from rounded, blobby strokes with tapered joins and subtly uneven outlines. Letterforms are punctuated by irregular internal knockouts and speckled voids that read like eroded ink or bubble holes, creating lively negative-space texture inside the strokes. Counters tend to be small and soft-edged, spacing is relatively open for the weight, and widths vary from glyph to glyph, giving the line a hand-formed, organic rhythm. The overall silhouette stays consistently bold, while the internal cutouts add contrast and visual vibration.
Best suited for short-to-medium display settings where texture is a feature: posters, headlines, packaging, stickers, album or podcast artwork, and event promotions with a playful-spooky or retro feel. It can also work for logos and wordmarks that want a bold silhouette with built-in visual character, especially when set at larger sizes.
The texture and hollowed “pocked” interiors give the font a mischievous, slightly eerie tone—somewhere between playful cartoon signage and horror-comic camp. It feels tactile and messy in an intentional way, suggesting goo, slime, foam, or distressed print. The energetic slant and bouncy proportions keep it friendly rather than aggressive.
The design appears intended to combine a chunky italic display structure with distinctive internal cutouts, producing a bold silhouette that stays readable while delivering a noisy, organic texture. The irregular knockouts function as a signature effect, turning otherwise simple rounded forms into a characterful, themed display voice.
In longer text the internal knockouts create a strong surface pattern; at smaller sizes those details may merge, shifting the look from speckled to simply roughened. Rounded terminals and softened corners help maintain legibility despite the heavy weight, while the irregular void placement prevents repeating shapes from feeling mechanical.