Hollow Other Upzi 5 is a very bold, wide, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, album art, event flyers, branding, edgy, punk, playful, collage, street, attention grabbing, diy texture, punk tone, cutout effect, spiky, cutout, blocky, irregular, stencil-like.
A heavy, block-based display face built from tall, rectangular silhouettes with jagged, crown-like tops and subtly uneven sidewalls. Each glyph reads as a solid slab that’s been carved through with thin, high-contrast internal knockouts, creating a hollowed, cut-paper look rather than traditional counters. The outlines are intentionally irregular and slightly inconsistent from character to character, producing a handmade rhythm and a noisy texture when set in words. Spacing and widths vary noticeably, reinforcing the rough, constructed feel while maintaining an overall upright stance and strong vertical presence.
Best suited to headlines and short, high-impact lines where the jagged silhouettes and hollowed interiors can be appreciated. It works particularly well for posters, music or club promotion, album art, and branding that aims for a gritty, DIY attitude. Use larger sizes and generous leading to preserve the interior cutouts and maintain legibility.
The font projects a bold, mischievous energy—part punk flyer, part DIY zine—mixing aggression from the spiked silhouettes with humor from the quirky interior cutouts. Its texture feels crafty and improvisational, like letters assembled from torn shapes or carved blocks, lending it an underground, attention-grabbing tone.
The design appears intended as a striking display font that prioritizes texture and attitude over conventional letterform refinement. By combining monolithic blocks with irregular interior knockouts, it aims to deliver a handcrafted, cutout aesthetic that stands out immediately in bold typographic compositions.
The distinctive notch-and-spike cap motif repeats across the alphabet, giving the face a recognizable skyline even when individual letterforms get abstracted by the internal hollows. The thin interior cuts can visually fill in at small sizes or on low-contrast backgrounds, so the type’s personality is most evident when given room to breathe.