Hollow Other Nisi 4 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, italic, short x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, logo concepts, merchandise, playful, handmade, quirky, retro, whimsical, novelty display, textured impact, handmade feel, retro accent, rounded, blobby, textured, perforated, high-ink.
A heavy, right-leaning display face with soft, inflated contours and a brushy, hand-drawn construction. Strokes are thick and rounded with uneven terminals, giving letters a slightly wobbly baseline rhythm and variable letter widths. The defining feature is a field of small, irregular interior knockouts that perforate the forms, creating a hollowed, speckled texture across both capitals and lowercase. Counters are generally small relative to the stroke mass, and spacing feels loose and organic rather than mechanically even.
Best suited to posters, headlines, packaging, and other short-form display settings where the perforated texture can be appreciated. It also works for logo concepts and merchandise graphics that benefit from a bold, novelty script-like presence, but is less appropriate for dense body copy.
The overall tone is playful and offbeat, with a crafty, homemade energy. The perforated texture reads like doodled cutouts or stamped ink wear, lending a nostalgic, novelty feel that’s more expressive than formal.
The design appears intended as an attention-grabbing display font that merges a casual, hand-rendered italic with an all-over hollow/knockout texture. Its goal is to deliver impact through mass and motion while adding character via irregular internal cutouts and playful, rounded proportions.
In longer lines, the interior holes add strong visual noise and can reduce clarity at smaller sizes, while at larger sizes they become a distinctive surface pattern. The italic slant and rounded joins keep the texture cohesive, preventing the letterforms from feeling brittle despite the cutouts.