Circus Alphabets

Circus AlphabetsFor this impressive collection, typographer and print historian Dan X. Solo has selected 100 fonts, many of which are reminiscent of the old fashioned print styles found on turn of the century posters and broadsides. Alphabets such as the attention getting Carnival, Frolic, and Houdini fondly recall that era. Others are attractions themselves, including the foreign looking Armenian and Tokyo; the eerie Monster Outline and Raindrops; and the glamorous

and Biedermeier and Neoclassical ornament in Germany

Old witches in cloaks of gold

including those sewn under the skin

lois lenski

held captive

ratcatcher

mathematical games

and profound terror

from the best specimens of 24 of the leading calligraphers of his day

By his musical sensitivity to poetic values and meanings which he embodied in each separate aspect of the song … he was able

The illustrations are uniformly excellent

and new techniques in photolithography and a larger format have resulted in reproductions that are as close as possible to the prints and drawings themselves