Hollow Other Fyku 4 is a bold, wide, very high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, signage, children’s media, playful, retro, whimsical, handmade, storybook, decorative impact, analog texture, friendly tone, retro display, blobby, rounded, chunky, inky, soft terminals.
A heavy, rounded display face with inflated, blobby letterforms and conspicuous internal knockouts that read like highlights or carved-out hollows. Strokes are thick and soft-edged, with irregular, brushy contours and a slightly wavy baseline rhythm that gives the texture a hand-drawn feel. Counters are generally compact and sometimes partly occluded by the interior cutouts, while terminals tend to be bulbous and tapered in places, creating a lively, uneven stroke silhouette. Proportions are generous and open, with broadly rounded bowls and simplified joins that keep the forms friendly and legible at larger sizes.
Best suited for display typography where its chunky silhouettes and hollowed detailing can read clearly—posters, headlines, logos, packaging, and storefront-style signage. It can also work well for playful editorial accents, children’s content, and event branding where a warm, handmade voice is desired.
The overall tone is playful and nostalgic, evoking mid-century poster lettering, candy-shop signage, and cartoon title cards. The hollowed highlights add an inky, analog personality—more theatrical than utilitarian—making the font feel cheerful, quirky, and a bit mischievous.
The design appears intended to deliver a friendly, high-impact display look with an intentionally imperfect, inked texture. The hollowed cutouts function as decorative highlights, adding depth and motion while keeping the dense black shapes from feeling flat.
The interior knockouts vary in size and placement from glyph to glyph, contributing to an organic, hand-rendered consistency rather than strict geometric repetition. Numerals and capitals carry the same soft, inflated logic, and the texture remains bold and graphic, especially in short words and headline settings.