Hollow Other Ilku 5 is a bold, narrow, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, halloween, packaging, album art, spooky, playful, grunge, handmade, quirky, novelty, texture, horror play, drippy, blobby, inked, wobbly, organic.
A condensed display face with heavy outer contours and irregular, hollowed interiors that read like cut-outs within each stroke. Letterforms are built from rounded, blobby shapes with noticeably wavy edges and uneven joins, creating a hand-drawn, inky silhouette. Counters and interior knockouts vary from glyph to glyph, producing a lively, distressed rhythm; terminals often taper or curl slightly, and curves dominate over straight geometry. Despite the irregularities, the set maintains consistent overall weight and a cohesive outline treatment across caps, lowercase, and numerals.
Best suited for short, attention-grabbing display settings such as posters, event titles, seasonal promotions, and branding accents where the hollow texture can be appreciated. It also works well for packaging, stickers, and album or game artwork that benefits from an eccentric, spooky-playful voice. Use larger sizes and generous spacing to keep the internal cutouts from filling in visually.
The hollow, mottled interiors and drippy contours give the font a creepy-cute energy—part horror novelty, part cartoon oddity. It feels mischievous and handmade, with a slightly gooey, distressed texture that suggests eerie signage and playful macabre storytelling rather than strict formality.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold novelty look through an outlined silhouette combined with irregular interior knockouts, creating a textured, “oozing ink” effect. Its condensed proportions and animated outlines emphasize impact and character over neutrality, aiming for expressive titles and themed graphics.
Spacing and widths feel uneven in a deliberate way, reinforcing the quirky, improvised tone. The texture is most pronounced in enclosed forms (like O, B, 8), where the interior cutouts create strong visual noise; at smaller sizes this effect can reduce clarity, while at larger sizes it becomes the main personality cue.