Hollow Other Wole 5 is a very bold, wide, very high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, signage, logos, packaging, retro, circus, western, playful, boisterous, attention grab, vintage flavor, dimensional effect, decorative display, slab serif, inline, shadowed, display, chunky.
A heavy, wide slab-serif display face with blunt terminals and compact counters. Strokes are mostly monoline in feel but visually enriched by high-contrast internal knockouts: thin, irregular inline highlights and small cut-out notches that repeat across the alphabet and numerals. Serifs are squared and bracketless, with sturdy verticals and broad horizontals that give the letters a blocky, poster-ready silhouette. Curves (C, G, O, S, 0) are round and full, while diagonals (V, W, X, Y) keep broad, stable joins; overall spacing reads generous and the texture is emphatically dark despite the internal openings.
Best suited to display settings where the decorative interior cutouts can be appreciated: posters, headlines, event flyers, storefront or wayfinding-style signage, and bold wordmarks. It can also add a vintage punch to packaging labels and short callouts, while extended body text will feel dense and busy.
The inline cutouts and chunky slabs evoke vintage show lettering—part circus poster, part old-west signage—delivering a confident, slightly mischievous energy. It reads loud and theatrical, with a handcrafted, print-era flavor rather than a neutral or technical tone.
The design appears intended to mimic classic inline show-type, using internal knockouts to suggest highlight and depth within very heavy letterforms. The goal is maximum impact and personality for short, attention-grabbing phrases rather than neutral readability.
The interior cutouts are not perfectly uniform, which adds a distressed/hand-inked character when viewed at text sizes. Numerals follow the same poster style, with the inline treatment helping large headlines feel dimensional without needing an actual outline or drop shadow.