Hollow Other Melo 4 is a bold, wide, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, stickers, kids media, playful, handcrafted, quirky, retro, comic, standout texture, handmade feel, display impact, playful branding, outlined, striped, textured, chunky, rounded.
A heavy, rounded display face built from thick outline strokes with open counters and a hollowed interior treatment. The interiors are filled with irregular horizontal stripe cutouts that read like hand-drawn hatching, giving each glyph a textured, knocked-out look rather than a flat fill. Curves are generously rounded, terminals are blunt, and proportions run on the wide side with slightly uneven internal rhythm that reinforces the handmade character. Numerals and uppercase share the same robust outline and consistent stripe pattern, keeping the set visually cohesive in display sizes.
Best suited for headlines and short bursts of copy where the textured hollow effect can be appreciated, such as posters, event graphics, packaging, labels, stickers, and social media promos. It can also work for playful editorial callouts or kids-oriented branding when set at larger sizes with ample spacing.
The overall tone is playful and crafty, with a doodled, poster-like energy. Its striped hollow treatment evokes a stamped or sketched aesthetic that feels casual, friendly, and a bit nostalgic.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold display voice with a distinctive hollow-and-hatched fill, combining legible, rounded skeletons with a deliberately irregular interior texture for personality and impact.
Because the interior striping competes with the letterforms, clarity drops as sizes get small or when used in dense paragraphs. The open outline and textured knockouts create strong visual presence on light backgrounds and benefit from generous tracking and leading.