About Carnies
This is the one we reach for when the request is bold font. Carnies keeps it simple, which is why it sits here rather than in the reserve pile. Illustration Ink made it. With 6 saves it has barely been seen, and that is neither a good nor a bad sign on a catalogue this size. No reviews either way, so the preview is doing all the work on this one.
Serifs are for reading, so we look at a full sentence in the preview rather than a single word — the rhythm shows up only in a line of text. Put it to work on carnival font first. If it survives that, it will survive whatever you had in mind next. Spend the minute on the preview at full size — it is where you find out whether bold font was the description or the aspiration.
It answers to circus font, display font, party font and playful font, and that spread of wording is worth noting: a file tagged this consistently usually behaves the way the preview suggests. We track what people actually type before they land here: serif fonts and script and serif font combinations. If that is roughly what you were after, this font is in the right family. The same shelf also answers to serif, so widen the search there before giving up on it. It is shelved with the rest of the serif fonts, and that is the quickest way to see what else sits in the same register before you settle on this one.
Carnies Specifications
| Font name | Carnies |
|---|---|
| Designer | Illustration Ink |
| Font type | Serif Fonts |
| Format | Digital download |
| Rating | Not rated yet |
| Reviews | None yet |
| Saved by | 6 makers on Creative Fabrica |
| Where to get it | Creative Fabrica |
How to use this font
- Download the font from Creative Fabrica and unzip it — you normally get OTF and TTF of the same face, plus a licence file.
- Install the OTF if your software gives you the choice: it carries the alternates and ligatures that make a script face look handwritten.
- Restart the app you design in — Canva, Photoshop, Cricut Design Space and Word all read the font list once, at launch.
- Read the licence before a paid job: personal and commercial use are priced apart, and a logo often needs the extended one.
Download Details
- Format: Digital download
- Files: listed on the Creative Fabrica page for this font
- Licence: whichever licence Creative Fabrica shows for this file — check it there before you sell what you make
