Hollow Other Ibma 1 is a regular weight, narrow, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, packaging, branding, greeting cards, playful, handmade, retro, whimsical, crafty, decorative texture, hand-lettered charm, display impact, retro signage feel, inline, sketchy, rounded, bouncy, informal.
A lively, right-leaning hand-lettered italic with narrow proportions and a gently irregular baseline rhythm. Strokes are medium in contrast with rounded terminals and soft, slightly wobbly curves that suggest marker or brush-pen drawing. Many letterforms feature an inline, hollowed decoration made of small cutouts/dots running along the stroke, giving the black shapes a textured, perforated look. Uppercase and lowercase share a casual construction with simplified joins, open counters, and occasional looped or hooked descenders that add bounce.
Best suited for short, high-impact settings where the inline texture can be appreciated—posters, display headlines, product packaging, café menus, greeting cards, and playful branding. It can work for brief pull quotes or social graphics, but the interior cutouts and lively irregularities favor larger sizes over long text.
The overall tone is friendly and crafty, with a whimsical, doodled energy. The inline cutouts read as decorative and slightly vintage, like hand-rendered signage or playful packaging lettering rather than formal editorial typography.
Designed to deliver a distinctive hand-lettered display voice with built-in decoration, combining an italic, narrow silhouette with a hollowed inline texture to create immediate personality and visual movement.
Spacing appears loosely set with uneven sidebearings typical of a drawn style, and the decorative cutouts create visible sparkle at larger sizes while becoming busier as sizes drop. Numerals follow the same informal, slightly condensed structure, maintaining the italic slant and hand-made texture.