My Favourite Circus Fonts: Round #2
A long time ago I posted a list of some of my favourite typefaces of the circus/carnival/sideshow/wild west persuasion (which you can take a look at here). Since there are so many fabulous fonts to choose from, I thought I’d post some more for your typographic pleasure! The fonts marked with an asterisk in the list below are for personal use only, but the rest are free to use in commercial projects; but just to be sure, please read each individual designer’s licensing agreement. (By the way, the pointy hands are actually part of the Joe Clement font – the left & right angle brackets).
I shall be posting a list of some of my favourite vintage & script fonts soon too.
I hope you have fun using these in some of your projects! :)
- Wild West (West Wind Fonts)
- Bosox (Lee Gordon)
- Tuscan MF (Rick Mueller)
- Circus Ornate (Dieter Steffmann)
- Movieola (Emerald City Fontwerks)
- Spatz* (Lorvad)
- JF Autumn Fair (Jester Font Studio)
- Beans (Benny Demmer)
- Beeper (someshinzz)
- Shadowed Serif (James Fordyce)
- Joe Clement (Character)
And here are a couple more beauties…
- Tightrope (Lost Type Co-op)
- Nelma (Lost Type Co-op – .eps & .ai format only, but a beautiful display typeface)
These look great. I love Movieola!
Me too! It looks particularly festive in blue & red.
Amazing! I am planning a circus birthday and found your list of circus fonts on your OLD blog which leads me to this post today! Perfect timing! Thanks!
That’s great! Glad they’re useful! :)
Hi Thanks for your blog came across it be accident but glad i did as i am planning a circus party :) Can i ask what program did you use to displace the fonts. As i want to do my invite in this style but dont know where to start. Any tips will be appricated Thanks
Hi Tracy! I used Photoshop, but you could use almost any graphics program to gussy up your fonts!
Oooh as a lazy blogger I thank you for sharing such fancy fonts!
Now that does not look like the blog of a lazy person…but you’re most welcome! :)
Wow thanks. I was scouring the web looking for these for a project and these are perfect. Thank you so much for sharing and i’m really enjoying reading your blog. Keep rockin’ the world
Thanks Natalie! :)
Thanks from France!! I looked for vintage circus fonts for scrapbooking. Yours are great!
You’re welcome Laetitia!
Hi, How did you give JF AutumnFair those color effects??
Hi Bronson! I just did it in Photoshop. :)
Hi Karena,
Wondering how did you achieve the show-through effect of the paper in Photoshop? Thanks!
Hi Karena,
I stumbled upon your gorgeous website when I was searching for a particular circusy font which I forgot the name but remember the shape of (and couldn’t find in my library, it was Romantique btw).
Love love your works back at Etsy. I haven’t visit your old blog and Etsy for ages, so good to finally found you again!!!
And seconding Karan, ow do you achieve the see-through effect in your blog? Do you make your white transparent? Or export it in .gif? It’s super awesome…
Dying to know….