Hollow Other Pela 3 is a bold, normal width, medium contrast, upright, short x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, kids branding, event promo, playful, handmade, whimsical, retro, kid-friendly, decorative texture, handcrafted feel, playful display, vintage charm, rounded, bubbly, speckled, textured, casual.
A chunky, rounded display face with soft corners and slightly uneven, hand-drawn contours. Letterforms are built from thick, mostly monoline strokes, then punctured with many small oval/round cutouts that create a consistent speckled, hollowed texture across counters and stems. Proportions are compact with a relatively low x-height and generous curves, while widths vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, adding an informal rhythm. The overall silhouette stays clean and legible at large sizes, but the interior perforations become the defining detail.
Best suited to display applications such as posters, headlines, packaging, labels, and event promotions where the cutout texture can be appreciated. It also works well for children’s materials, playful branding, and short emphasis lines, but is less ideal for small UI text or long passages where the internal perforations may clutter at reduced sizes.
The dotted cutouts and bouncy shapes give the font a cheerful, crafty tone—somewhere between playful vintage signage and kid-oriented illustration. It feels lighthearted and decorative, with a friendly, approachable voice rather than a formal or technical one.
The design appears intended to combine a bold, friendly hand-lettered structure with a decorative punched-out texture, producing a lively patterned look without relying on external effects. It aims for immediate character and recognizability in short-form display settings.
The perforation pattern is dense and consistent, functioning like a built-in texture rather than incidental distressing. In longer text, the interior holes create visual sparkle and can read as a patterned fill, so spacing and line length benefit from generous white space around the type.