Hollow Other Upke 4 is a very bold, normal width, high contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, album art, packaging, event flyers, grunge, playful, noisy, posterish, diy, distressed effect, display impact, print texture, diy look, textured, knockout, chunky, irregular, stencil-like.
A very heavy, display-oriented letterform with chunky silhouettes and slightly irregular contours. The defining feature is a consistent pattern of internal knockouts—small, uneven voids and pitted cut-ins—that break up strokes and counters, creating a speckled, eroded texture across both uppercase and lowercase. Curves are bold and rounded, while many joins and terminals feel subtly hand-cut rather than perfectly geometric, giving the face a lively, distressed rhythm. Numerals follow the same stout construction and perforated interior treatment, keeping the set visually unified.
Best suited to short, high-impact copy such as posters, headlines, album or show graphics, and packaging where the distressed texture can function as a primary design element. It also works well for badges, stickers, and social graphics that want a rugged, stamped look, especially at medium to large sizes.
The overall tone is gritty and energetic, balancing rugged wear with a quirky, playful edge. The mottled cutouts evoke weathered signage, stamped ink, or distressed print, lending an intentionally imperfect, DIY character that reads as loud and expressive.
The design appears intended to deliver a bold display voice with built-in distressing, combining thick shapes for instant legibility with irregular internal cutouts to simulate wear, erosion, or ink breakup. The goal is a ready-made textured aesthetic that adds character without additional graphic treatment.
In text settings the internal holes become a strong surface pattern that dominates the color of the page, so the face reads best when the texture is allowed to be seen rather than reduced. The irregular voids vary from glyph to glyph, which adds visual movement but also makes dense paragraphs feel busy compared with cleaner display faces.