Hollow Other Pemo 1 is a regular weight, very narrow, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, book covers, event flyers, playful, spooky, handmade, grunge, whimsical, add texture, feel handmade, create novelty, evoke eerie, speckled, eroded, rough-edged, inky, irregular.
A condensed, upright display face with tall proportions and slightly wobbly contours that suggest hand-drawn lettering. Strokes are solid black but riddled with small, irregular interior knockouts that create a speckled, hollowed texture throughout the letterforms. Terminals are softly rounded and uneven, with occasional bulb-like ends, giving the alphabet a lively, imperfect rhythm. Counters are generally tight and forms are compact, with subtle, inconsistent widths and a lightly distressed edge that reads as stamped or worn.
Best suited to short display settings where texture and personality are the goal: posters, headlines, packaging accents, book covers, and themed event flyers. It can also work for logos or wordmarks that benefit from a handmade, distressed look, especially at larger sizes where the interior knockouts remain legible.
The overall tone is playful and offbeat, with a spooky-carnival or storybook eeriness created by the dotted cutouts and irregular ink-like shapes. It feels crafty and theatrical rather than polished, leaning toward novelty and characterful charm.
The design appears intended to deliver a compact, attention-grabbing display voice with a built-in decorative texture. By combining narrow proportions with irregular, hollowed speckling, it aims to feel handcrafted and slightly worn—like inked type that has been weathered or perforated for visual character.
The speckled internal cutouts are consistent across capitals, lowercase, and numerals, acting like a signature texture rather than incidental distress. In text, the condensed spacing and busy interiors can make long passages feel visually dense, while headings retain strong personality and pattern.