Hollow Other Riba 10 is a regular weight, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, event promos, signage, playful, marquee, circus, retro, festive, decorative texture, showtime styling, attention grabbing, retro display, rounded, monoline, dotted, bubble, display.
A rounded, monoline display face built from soft, tubular letterforms with heavily rounded terminals and corners. Each stroke is visually hollowed by a consistent pattern of small circular cutouts that run along the interior, creating a dotted, perforated texture while preserving a solid outer silhouette. Counters are generous and shapes are simplified, with friendly proportions and a steady rhythm that keeps the pattern readable across capitals, lowercase, and numerals. Overall spacing and stroke presence are bold enough for short lines, with the perforations adding texture that becomes more pronounced as sizes increase.
Best suited to display settings such as posters, headlines, event promotions, and signage where the perforated detailing can be appreciated. It can add a distinctive, festive voice to packaging and brand moments that call for playful retro energy, and works well in short bursts of text rather than long reading.
The repeated circular knockouts give the face a lit-bulb or perforated-sign feeling that reads as celebratory and show-oriented. It suggests a playful, vintage display tone—somewhere between carnival lettering and theatrical marquee styling—while staying approachable and rounded rather than sharp or severe.
The design appears intended to deliver a straightforward, friendly rounded alphabet enhanced by a repeating circular knockout motif for instant visual identity. The goal seems to be high-impact display typography with a built-in decorative texture reminiscent of illuminated or perforated show lettering.
The dotted interior treatment is the defining feature and functions like an inline pattern rather than a traditional outline, so the font’s character depends strongly on clean reproduction. At smaller sizes or on busy backgrounds, the perforations can visually merge, while at larger sizes they add strong texture and a crafted, decorative finish.