Hollow Other Ebko 5 is a very bold, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, halloween, kids branding, packaging, stickers, playful, spooky, gooey, handmade, cartoon, thematic display, texture effect, playful impact, spooky novelty, rounded, blobby, soft corners, irregular texture, cutout detail.
A heavy, rounded display face built from soft, inflated strokes with smooth terminals and simplified geometry. The letterforms are largely monoline in silhouette but animated by irregular interior knockouts and speckled cut-ins that create a distressed, hollowed look across many glyphs. Curves are generous and counters are open and friendly, while spacing and widths vary slightly to keep an organic, hand-shaped rhythm. Numerals and capitals match the same chunky proportions and share the same internal cutout treatment for consistent color and texture.
Best suited for short, high-impact text such as posters, event titles, seasonal promotions, kids-oriented branding, packaging callouts, stickers, and social graphics. It works especially well where a fun spooky or gooey theme is desired and where the internal cutouts can remain visible at display sizes.
The overall tone is playful and mischievous, with a gooey, monster-movie feel that reads as fun rather than threatening. The internal cutouts add a crafty, imperfect texture that suggests slime, ink blots, or carved stencil marks, giving the font a lively, animated personality.
The design appears intended as a characterful display font that combines rounded, approachable shapes with decorative internal knockouts to add texture and theme. The goal seems to be immediate visual personality and a playful, slightly eerie atmosphere rather than neutral readability.
The bold massing and rounded joins create strong spot-color at large sizes, while the busy interior texture can reduce clarity in smaller settings. Many glyphs have distinctive internal highlights/voids that act like built-in ornamentation, so the font tends to look best when it can breathe on a clean background.