Hollow Other Mere 3 is a bold, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, packaging, headlines, halloween, kids, playful, spooky, handmade, whimsical, vintage, texture, novelty, distress, thematic, handcrafted, roughened, stencil-like, carved, irregular, textured.
A heavy display face with compact proportions and a lively, irregular silhouette. Letterforms are built from bold, high-contrast strokes with roughened contours and frequent internal knockouts that read like carved or chipped voids rather than smooth counters. Terminals and corners are inconsistently notched, giving a hand-cut, collage-like rhythm across the alphabet. Spacing appears slightly uneven by design, and widths vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, reinforcing an informal, decorative texture in running text.
Best suited to short display settings where its internal cutouts and rough edges can read clearly: posters, event flyers, product packaging, labels, and punchy headlines. It can also work for seasonal or themed graphics (especially spooky or whimsical concepts) and playful editorial callouts, but is likely too visually busy for long passages at small sizes.
The overall tone is mischievous and slightly eerie, combining a circus-poster exuberance with a distressed, cut-out look. The busy interior voids add a crafty, handmade character that feels playful rather than polished, lending itself to quirky or gothic-leaning themes without becoming overtly severe.
The design intention appears to be a bold, characterful display font that mimics hand-carved or stencil-cut lettering, using irregular internal knockouts and distressed contours to create instant texture and personality. The consistent use of cutouts across letters and numbers suggests it was built to deliver a distinctive, decorative voice rather than neutrality or text efficiency.
Uppercase forms feel more emblematic and blocky, while the lowercase introduces more bounce and idiosyncrasy, especially in rounded letters where the interior cutouts become prominent visual features. Numerals maintain the same knocked-out texture and bold mass, keeping consistency for short, attention-grabbing uses.