Hollow Other Ilve 8 is a bold, very wide, low contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, logo, kids media, playful, retro, whimsical, cartoon, attention grabbing, decorative texture, friendly display, nostalgic feel, rounded, inline, soft, chunky, bubbly.
A rounded, chunky display face with softly squared corners and consistently thick outer strokes. Each glyph is built as an outlined form with internal inline-style cutouts that create a hollow, double-line effect, sometimes splitting bowls or counters into lobed shapes. Curves are generous and slightly irregular in a hand-drawn way, while straights keep a gentle, pill-like geometry; joints and terminals remain blunt and friendly rather than sharp. The alphabet shows lively variation in internal openings and counter shapes, giving the set a distinctive, decorative rhythm in both uppercase and lowercase.
Best suited to short, large-scale applications where the hollow inline detailing can stay crisp: headlines, posters, packaging, event graphics, and logo/wordmark concepts. It can work for playful brand accents and display copy, but is less appropriate for long-form reading or small UI text due to the strong internal ornamentation.
The overall tone is playful and nostalgic, with a lighthearted, cartoon-like energy. The hollow/inline detailing adds a toy-signage feel that reads as fun and attention-seeking rather than formal or technical.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold, friendly display voice by combining rounded, wide letterforms with distinctive hollow/inline cutouts. The goal is immediate visual character and a decorative texture that stands out in branding and headline contexts.
In text settings the interior cutouts become the primary texture, producing a patterned “double-stroke” look that can feel busy at smaller sizes. Numerals and rounded letters (like O, Q, 8, 9) emphasize the decorative inner splits most strongly, which increases personality but benefits from generous sizing and spacing.