Hollow Other Ilme 4 is a regular weight, wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, signage, logos, packaging, industrial, technical, marquee, retro, playful, industrial motif, signage impact, textural display, novelty styling, outlined, stenciled, segmented, rounded corners, geometric.
This typeface is built from outlined, hollow strokes with consistent line weight and a modular, segmented construction. Corners are predominantly chamfered or softly squared, giving the glyphs an engineered, fabricated feel, while internal knockouts appear as a regular pattern of small circular perforations along the stroke path. Curves are formed by faceted segments rather than smooth arcs, and several terminals show clipped angles that reinforce the mechanical rhythm. Spacing and proportions are relatively open, helping the dotted cutouts remain legible at display sizes.
Best suited for display applications such as headlines, posters, event branding, signage, and logo wordmarks where the perforated hollow construction can read clearly. It can also add distinctive texture to packaging or thematic graphics that reference machinery, fabrication, or retro-lit lettering, but is less appropriate for small body text due to the fine internal detail.
The overall tone reads industrial and technical, with a marquee-like sparkle created by the repeating perforations. It carries a retro signage and hardware aesthetic—somewhere between riveted metal, conveyor-belt mechanics, and LED-lite display language—while staying light and playful due to the hollow interiors and dot patterning.
The design appears intended to translate an industrial/perforated material metaphor into letterforms—using hollow outlines and repeating round cutouts to suggest rivets, punched metal, or illuminated marquee points—while maintaining a sturdy, geometric structure for recognizable forms.
The perforation motif is visually dominant and creates a strong texture across words, especially in longer lines of text. Because the detail sits inside the strokes, the design benefits from sufficient size and contrast so the cutouts don’t visually fill in or blur together.