Hollow Other Siza 3 is a bold, very wide, very high contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logos, packaging, titles, deco, theatrical, punchy, poster-ready, retro, attention, decoration, branding, impact, nostalgia, inline, knockout, ornamental, display, geometric.
A heavy display design built from broad, geometric letterforms with pronounced internal knockouts and inline-style cut-ins. Many glyphs mix solid fills with crisp white shapes that carve into bowls and stems, creating a layered, stencil-like rhythm. Curves are largely circular and clean (notably in C/O/Q and the numerals), while straights are blocky with squared terminals; several diagonals (V/W/X/Y/Z) are sharply wedged and feel engineered rather than handwritten. The overall texture alternates between dense black mass and bright negative space, producing a striking, patterned color on the line.
Best suited to short, large-size settings such as posters, event titles, logo wordmarks, and packaging where the internal cutouts can be appreciated. It can also work for decorative pull quotes or chapter openers, but extended small-size reading may lose clarity as the knockouts begin to compete with the letterforms.
The font reads as bold and theatrical, with a vintage showcard and art-deco flavor. Its dramatic contrasts and decorative cutouts give it a slightly mysterious, masquerade-like tone—confident, stylish, and attention-seeking rather than neutral.
The design appears intended to maximize visual impact through bold silhouettes and distinctive internal carving, turning each glyph into a graphic object as much as a letter. The consistent use of cut-ins and split counters suggests a deliberate display system aimed at retro-styled, high-contrast typography.
Internal negative shapes are intentionally irregular across the set, so characters feel individually stylized while maintaining a consistent system of inset cuts and split bowls. In text, the strong patterning can make word shapes busy, especially where multiple counters and knockouts align closely.