One of the original nineteenth century designs, cut at Barnhart Brothers & Spindler in Chicago about 1880, passed on to us through ATF. Unlike most Circus types, the serifs of P.T. Barnum are bracketed.

A display style font, upper case only, very typical of wooden type of the 19th century, ideal for circus posters or posters of any kind which might feature antique material and so on

Inspired by E.C. Matthew's, circa 1940's.

Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. Ludlow, circa 1939.

Based on the Albert Kapr design, circa 1959.

Niemi is a continuation of the work started with Versteeg. Where Versteeg was separated into individual circles, Huet connects these circles and adds a sharp geometric style. This creates a nice juxtaposition between the rounded ends, and sharp corners.

A modern cutting designed to give the appearance of an old wood type. The letters were cut as linoleum blocks about 2 inches high, then duplicated as copper electrotypes. Used for some Ringling Bros. circus work.

Based on the Albert Auspurg design, circa 1921-27.

Howling Wolf is all caps aggressive dirty brush font special for your Display Design. With a bold aggressive style, it adds a bold touch to your projects and will inspire you to create something bold for your project. Besides that, this font is also equipped with Alternative Characters, Standard Ligatures, and multi-language support. Howling Wolf is ideal for headings, flyers, greeting cards, product packaging, book covers, printed quotes, logotype, and album covers.

Chairdrobe is minimalistic typeface with a contemporary, urban style. It feels pure, raw and a bit dirty. You can use it as display type as well as in longer text. Try to space it up. It looks super tight with a lot of spacing! Chairdrobe is a sans-serif, condensed typeface. Available in 3 different variations – Normal, Rounded and Grunge. It features upper and lowercase letters and up to 7 Weights and Italics.

Inspired by circus billboards, old west posters and torn paper constructs, "Lonely Cowpoke" is an oddity of bold graphic forms and cheerful curving lines. Revelling in its own quirky nature, this playful font lightens up any mood.

Based on the original typeface from Face, London, circa 1972.

Based on the typeface Vesta by Albert Augspurg, circa 1926.

R.H. Middleton for Ludlow, circa 1956. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman.

Based on the William T. Sniffin design for ATF, circa 1928.

Based on the S. H. de Roos design, Amsterdam Foundry circa 1923.

Modern text font based on a Hansen Type Foundry font (circa 1872).

An original design based on Progreso from the Gans foundry circa 1923.

Based on ‘Players,’ a typeface from English designer Adrian Williams, circa 1976.

Typewriter Revo is based on Typewriter BasiX but it is completely redesigned: While Typewriter BasiX has dapples and grunge (which looks more realistic), the contours of Typewriter Revo crisp and clear. Typewriter Revo is more suitable for continuous text while Typewriter BasiX and Typewriter DirtY are suitable for large Pictures, logos or headings. In contrast to Typewriter BasiX, Typewriter Revo includes 11 more characters and is also available in a bold, italic and bold + italic version.

Axelentia is a natural brushed font with a dirty texture. This font will give you a design that looks fresh and edgy and will look beautiful with offers, fashion magazines, stationery design logos, quotes, brands, greeting cards, packaging designs, posters, and more. Axelentia has two weights: Axelentia Regular and Axelentia Slant. They are complete with upper and lower case letters, as well as multi-language support, numbers, punctuation. Ligature and some additional letter characters are also provided.

Core Magic is a slab-serif version of Core Circus which is a layered type family consisting of seven 3D effect layers, eight 2D effect layers and one shadow effect layer. Uppercase and lowercase letters are separated by such features that counters are opened or closed. Core Magic provides other closed counter styles such as numbers with opentype feature (Stylistic Alternatives). Using Core Magic with Core Circus could make your works more charming and special with endless combinations (at least 262,551 kinds). This family is really nice for book titles, headlines, logotypes and any artworks. Also available the rough version of this family - Core Magic Rough.

Based on Iberica by Carlos Winkow for the Spanish foundry, Nacional, circa 1942.

Designed by R.H. Middleton for Ludlow, circa 1930. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman.

Designed by R.H. Middleton for Ludlow, circa 1937. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman.

Based on Nacional by Carlos Winkow from the Spanish foundry, Nacional, circa 1941.

Designed by R.H. Middleton for Ludlow, circa 1929-30. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman.

Sandikza started out as an idea for a metal titles and some games. Or anything that was printed distorted. In other word something harsh. It makes a death or dirt feeling anywhere it is used.

Hockeynight Sans with its round corners is the smoothest sports-font you will find. Its the helvetica under the college fonts. Spice it up and mix some of the alternative glyphs in! Hockeynight comes in 7 Weights and each one available as an Italic. Use it big and bold on your sports-poster, space it up to get that dirty look or use some alternate glyphs for your logodesign. Look out for the Brush Versions and the Slab Version of Hockeynight

A simple sans-serif font made from straight line segments and true circles and arcs.

Based on the Deberny & Peignot, circa 1925. Originally the inline was a capitals only font.

Hustlers™ was inspired by carnival, circus and tattoo signs shop from the late 1800's. It works well with normal size text, but works even better for large displays, short words, or just to incorporate a few or single characters in a design.

Marcu San is part of the Take Type Library, which features the winners of Linotype’s International Digital Type Design Contest. Designer Markus McCallion designed his sans serif font with unusual forms based on circles and circle fragments. Legibility is thus decreased for the sake of a unique look and a variety of design possibilities.

Piolin So new. So different. Piolin is a memorable display font inspired by the circus universe. This typeface, which has the same name of the most renowned brazilian clown, is full of magical tricks like several characters alternates, swashes and discretionary ligatures. Please, explore the opentype features included in this typeface at their best and go deep inside the circus imaginary.  Piolin is suitable for brand identities, book design, editorial design, campaigns, exhibitions and other promotional materials that seek a special flavour to stand out an astonishing message. If used in big sizes, Piolin reveals its marvellous details which make us feel bewitched by how carefully it is designed. Feel the magic up close!

Based on proofs of an early Remington typewriter font from the Keystone Type Foundry, circa 1905.

Fyra is a family of fonts ideal for diagrams and signage. Included in the family are versions with uppercase letters in circles and squares, as well as numbers 0-99 in circles and squares. The characters themselves were designed to be very neutral, so they should pair well with whatever other typefaces you are using on your project.