My Favourite Circus Fonts
Monday April 7th, 2008, 4 years, 1 month and 1 week ago
I collect fonts of the Circus/Sideshow/Carnival/Wild West ilk. I tirelessly trawl the depths of the internet to find them.
Here are 12 of my favourites, & I’ve spared you the trouble of searching for them…
- Big Top
- De Louisville
- J F Ferrule
- URWWood Typ D
- Cast Iron
- Circus
- Pointedly Mad
- Armenian Circus
- Hoedown
- Romantiques
- Coney Island
- Abilene FLF
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Ha! Great post. My favourite would have to be Romantiques. I like the way you incorporate text into your work.
These are so great and make me want to eat some cotton candy and watch a lion tamer.
I love cast iron best. :)
Thank you SO much for sharing these! Once I get home tonight (I’m at work) I must must must download all of them!
Yes! I downloaded 2 of them…thanks for sharing!
These are awesome! Thanks so much, MJ!
These are wonderful! Woke me right up.
Thanks for these Magic Jelly! You are too kind!
Happy Monday!
If I had to pick one, it would be De Louisville. Nice, complete collection.
I am a big fan of hoedown, must be my deep south roots!
That’s so cool. Thanks for sharing. I’m going to bookmark this post.
What a fun collection of fonts!
The Circus, how grand!
I’m not sure which my favorite is.
I like Cast Iron, but I prefer some elements of Circus – a blend would be great!
Armenian Circus is nice, so exotic sounding, and that is a nice little flourish on the serifs, I reckon.
Hey there. Just came across you blog and wow…talk about amazing vintage greatness.
And those fonts. Don’t get me started…
Ha.
They are wonderful! Now, which do I like the best…
awesome! i love fonts. I scour fontsites regularly and have like a million of them for photoshop and illustrator. I cant get enough.
TNow I have to decide which on I like the most! They are all great!
Love those fonts!! I think Circus is my favorite one. Thanks for the links :) I collect fonts myself!
Very cool… I may have to put some of these to use. Thanks for sharing your hard work :)
Thanks Magic Jelly!
Wonderful Magic Jelly!
Ahh! Ha!
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Those are some Super-Fun Fonts!
I can’t figure out how to do it! Can you tell me?
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Just stick it under the most recent post.
Thanks!
How wunderful…I often search for circus-inspired fonts too & you have some I haven’t yet found. THANK YOU sooo much! :)
xxx
MJ, thanks so much! I’ll add these to my arsenal. I love fonts. :0) Have a lovely day!!
xxoo,
Cloud9 Design
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Have you seen eduardo recife’s fonts at misprintedtype.com? Specifically ‘Great Circus’ – love his work.
Wow, thanks so much for sharing this. It must have taken hours of searching on your part. I LOVE circus fonts and am always scouring the net for vintage circus images. I love your site and have added a link to you on my blog as well as an entry about your etsy prints. I hope this is okay with you! xxxooomelissa
I am a big fan of the circus fonts, cant get enough of them either.
Thanks for this post.
thanks for the great circus fonts!!! i restoring an old dance hall in schulenburg texas and they will come in handy.
rock out.
there was a dover book that i had got, which had a lot of nice fonts in it.
http://www.doverbooks.co.uk/images/0486600000/0486999858.jpg
i had come across your blog while searching for a font to use for a tattoo.
i like it.
hope all is well
hi i just wanna say your site rocks
Fabulous! You are a fantastic font finding fanatic!
So AWESOME!! Thanks for sharing, I will be linking to this!!
LOVE! Thanks so much for sharing. I’ll be linking to this :)
Thanks for sharing these great fonts, and I love your site.
I just wanted to let you know that when I clicked to go the URWWood Typ D font I received ads for porn with cursing in them. I closed the link, and you don’t seem to be that sort of site.
This is AMAZING!!!
Thank you so much for this great post!
Yum, yum! Coney Island hotdogs, wooden roller coaster and two headed turtle scams. Oh yea… and imaginative sign fonts.
Thanks for posting this font list! Came in handy for a project I’m working on. Beautiful site!
Thanks for those – they are great!
Love the fonts! Thanks for sharing! <3
I was searching for carnival fonts and was brought here. I love all the fonts you have posted, one problem, I am having the hardest time downloading them. Is there a special trick to it. Thank you in advance for your help.
great collection, thanks!
but.. i’d like to get urwwood typ d but it doesn’t work :(
any help?
check out the “Nu – Creactivo ” on dafont.com a friend made it =)
Thank you so much for this great resource! I was looking for vintage circus fonts for a burlesque/vaudeville freak museum installation I’m producing (and designing the poster for) here in Chicago and these TOTALLY fit the bill!
Sweet! Thanks
you are awesome. thanks!!!
I downloaded all, perfect work! God bless more you! Thx darling!
I have downloaded some of the fonts but can’t use them, am I doing something wrong? Thanks for posting them, been looking for ages!!!
I personally really like Big Top! :)
Thanks for rounding these up! Great collection.
This is fantastic! I am having a carnival party, and this will be a great help in getting together some decorations. Thanks so much for sharing this!
What’s the chances that you can find people compiling “My favourite circus fonts” seriously?
Thank u so much for this. :)
This was a HUGE help! I just downloaded all of the fonts you recommended. Thanks!