Hollow Other Kena 4 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, kids, comics, playful, handmade, comic, spooky, whimsical, expressiveness, texture, novelty, display impact, handmade feel, outlined, rough, wobbly, chunky, irregular.
A chunky, hand-drawn display face built from thick, uneven outlines with hollow interiors. Strokes wobble and bulge slightly, with corners that feel carved or chiseled rather than geometric, producing an intentionally irregular rhythm. Counters are often inset as smaller inner outlines, creating a multi-contour, cutout look that varies subtly from glyph to glyph. Proportions are lively and inconsistent in a controlled way, with wide, open shapes in rounds and more angular, compressed constructions in diagonals and junctions, giving the alphabet a distinctly handmade texture.
Best suited to short, high-impact settings such as posters, headings, titles, stickers, and packaging where the outlined, hollow texture can be appreciated at larger sizes. It can work well for playful branding, children’s materials, Halloween or novelty themes, and comic-style graphics, but is less appropriate for long-form reading or small UI sizes.
The overall tone is playful and eccentric, like marker-and-ink lettering for comics, kids’ graphics, or quirky posters. The hollowed construction and rough edge behavior also lends a slightly eerie, mischievous character that can read as spooky-fun rather than truly dark.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold, attention-grabbing outline display style with a deliberately imperfect, hand-rendered finish. The internal knockouts and uneven contouring suggest a focus on personality and texture over typographic neutrality, aiming for a distinctive, illustrative voice.
In text, the interior cutouts and irregular outlines create strong visual noise, so the face reads best when allowed to breathe with generous tracking and line spacing. The numerals and capitals carry the most graphic personality, while lowercase retains the same outlined logic with simplified forms and a casual, hand-lettered feel.