DesignTales

Welcome to this week’s FreeFontFile. We have a theme for this week. I’ve been working on a circus-themed print project and there are a lot of really good free fonts that work for a circus design. So we present a trio of Circus fonts, perfect for display headlines. Enjoy!

Circus

What list of circus fonts can you have without a font actually called Circus? Well, it’s a traditional retro font. This one is just a display font. There aren’t any lowercase letters or numbers, so it can be a bit limiting, but if you just have letters and need a great Circus feeling to your text, you can’t go wrong here.

Online: http://www.abstractfonts.com/font/12384

Coney Island

Coney Island. It’s tasty. Like a coney dog. Just a little bit of fun on the top. Curvy and fun. Again, display font without any lowercase letters. We do, however, have numbers here.

Online: http://www.abstractfonts.com/font/10495

Carnivalee Freakshow

Welcome to the freakshow. This is a great carnival font. On a close inspection, you’ll see some nice distressing in the font, giving it a bit of a grungy feel. Kind of like a rubber stamp. “Lowercase” letters are smaller versions of the uppercase letters.

Online: http://www.abstractfonts.com/font/10595

There’s our ode to the circus. If you ever find a need for a trip back into the early 1900’s, this is a good place to start. Have fun with these and we’ll see you all next week with a new set.

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I’ve been following this week’s SiteoftheWeek for a while now. While I was growing up, everyone wanted to be an astronaut at some point. Everyone I knew wanted to take a summer and go to SpaceCamp. Yeah, none of us could afford any of that at the time, but that didn’t change the dream. Twenty years later, back in 2005, Burt Rutan had been working on the Ansari X Prize competition and became the first non-NASA based individual to fly into space and return to Earth twice. Burt’s team won the X Prize and shortly afterward, Sir Richard Branson formed the space travel company, Virgin Galactic. It’s been six years and there have been lot of great advances in the tech of the Virgin Galactic space fleet. Beyond the space tech, there have been some great design tech that has evolved on the Virgin Galactic website. The design is simple, yet epic. The background for each page is a lovely shot of the Earth from space. BIG. Nice uses of, well, space. The latest additions to the site is the use of some HTML 5 interactive pieces. The Overview page is a very interactive scrolling timeline of some of the history of space flight and the specific milestones in the life of Virgin Galactic. And for $200,000 (with a $20,000 deposit), you can join the elite in space. Yes, it’s expensive, but it’s a start.

The design is great. I wouldn’t expect any less from Branson and the Virgin Galactic team. To see whats happening with everything from the ships to the New Mexico spaceport, it can all be found at http://www.virgingalactic.com/.

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