Big Top
Letterhead Fonts · John Studden
displaycircus/fairground lettering
A two-variant display face drawn from old photographs of English fair and circus signage, offered in Regular and Shadow cuts.
About
Designed by John Studden after sourcing a book of archival fair and circus photographs from England, Big Top recreates the hand-lettered style found on period signage. The family includes Regular and Shadow versions, with full numbers, punctuation and accented characters. Its character sits firmly in the Victorian showman tradition.
Classification
Decorative display type drawn from Victorian-era circus and fairground signage, with a shadow variant typical of hand-lettered show card and poster styles of that period.
Weights
Regular
Family
Big Top RegularBig Top Shadow
Languages
Latin
Tags
circusfairgroundvictoriandisplayshadowdecorativeretrosignage