Hollow Other Mele 2 is a bold, wide, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, album art, halloween, grunge, spooky, vintage, playful, noisy, visual texture, thematic display, aged print, dramatic impact, decorative, distressed, textured, shadowed, ink-trap-like.
A chunky display serif with pronounced wedge-like terminals and a slightly condensed-to-extended mix across glyphs. The letterforms are built from solid black strokes that are heavily hollowed with irregular internal cutouts, creating a mottled, carved-out look through bowls and stems. Curves are smooth and fairly geometric, while the internal voids add jittery texture and visual noise; counters remain readable but feel broken up. Spacing and rhythm are steady in text, with strong vertical presence and stout serifs that keep lines visually anchored.
Best suited to headlines, posters, and short bursts of copy where the textured hollows can read clearly. It can add strong personality to packaging, event flyers, album artwork, and themed materials where a distressed or spooky vibe is desirable. For longer text or small UI sizes, the internal cutouts may reduce clarity.
The overall tone feels gritty and theatrical—part aged print, part horror poster—mixing a playful eccentricity with a darker, distressed edge. The hollowed texture reads like weathered paint, chipped ink, or eroded stone, giving headings an intentionally rough, attention-grabbing character.
The design appears intended to take a traditional, sturdy serif skeleton and inject it with irregular hollowing to create a distressed, decorative display voice. The goal seems to be maximum impact and texture while preserving recognizable letter shapes for readable titling.
Uppercase forms look robust and poster-friendly, while lowercase retains the same decorative treatment and remains legible at display sizes. The numerals share the same hollowed texture and bold silhouette, maintaining a consistent, stamped aesthetic across the set. The busy interior pattern can overwhelm at small sizes or in dense paragraphs, where the texture becomes the dominant feature.