Hollow Other Onka 10 is a bold, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, party invites, kids branding, playful, retro, theatrical, festive, whimsical, decorative texture, novelty display, marquee effect, playful branding, polka-dot, marquee, display, cutout, stencil-like.
A bold, rounded sans with simplified geometry and smooth curves, set with generally compact proportions and clear, open counters. The defining feature is a field of irregular circular knockouts punched through the strokes, creating a perforated, polka-dot texture that varies in size and placement while staying consistently distributed across each glyph. Terminals are blunt and clean, with minimal stroke modulation beyond the visual contrast introduced by the internal cutouts.
Best suited to display settings where the perforated texture can be appreciated—headlines, posters, event graphics, packaging, and playful branding. It works well for short bursts of text, labels, and pull quotes where decorative letterforms are an advantage.
The dotted perforations give the face a lively, showbiz energy—evoking marquee lights, confetti, or patterned craft materials. It reads as cheerful and attention-grabbing, with a slightly vintage, novelty-signage flavor rather than a sober editorial tone.
The design appears intended to turn a straightforward rounded sans skeleton into a graphic, patterned display face by carving irregular circular knockouts through the strokes. The goal is immediate visual character and a festive, marquee-like presence while keeping letter shapes broadly familiar and readable.
The internal holes add strong texture that becomes more prominent as size increases; at smaller sizes the pattern can visually merge and reduce clarity. The overall rhythm stays steady across capitals, lowercase, and numerals, with the dot pattern acting as a unifying graphic motif.