Hollow Other Niku 6 is a very bold, wide, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, signage, logos, packaging, circus, western, vintage, playful, theatrical, attention, nostalgia, texture, display, ornament, decorative, tuscan, notched, ornamental, poster.
A decorative serif with exaggerated slab-like stems, pointed wedge terminals, and Tuscan-style bifurcations that create a lively, slightly irregular silhouette. The letterforms are tightly built and top-heavy, with compact counters and pronounced bracketed serifs that read clearly at display sizes. Throughout, the black shapes are interrupted by scattered internal knockouts and pitted cut-ins, producing a distressed, hollowed texture that varies from glyph to glyph while staying stylistically consistent. Numerals and capitals feel especially sculptural, with strong vertical emphasis and bold cross-strokes that hold their shape in short words and headlines.
Best suited to display work such as posters, event headlines, storefront or label-style signage, and brand marks that want a vintage showcard flavor. It can work well for short phrases and titles where the distressed, hollowed texture reads as intentional detail rather than noise, and where generous sizing preserves the interior cutouts.
The overall tone is showy and nostalgic, evoking old posters and stage signage with a hint of rugged wear. The distressed cutouts add a handcrafted, timeworn feel, balancing the font’s formal serif structure with a more playful, theatrical energy.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold, attention-grabbing serif with a classic Tuscan showcard structure, enhanced by decorative internal knockouts to suggest age, texture, and print-like wear. The goal seems to be maximum personality and visual impact rather than neutral text readability.
Spacing in the sample text suggests the texture becomes visually dense in longer passages, where the internal knockouts create a shimmering pattern across lines. Curved letters and rounded counters (like O, Q, e, g) showcase the hollowing most clearly, while diagonals (V, W, X, Y) emphasize the jagged, notched rhythm at the edges.