Author's note

Dancingmen, designed in 1994 by Martin Bergman and converted into a Windows TrueType font by Poul Steen Larsen in 1995, is a free cartoon dingbat font built from lively stick figures. Each figure combines a small circular head with a narrow rectangular body and sharply angled limbs. The poses look animated and deliberately awkward.

It can turn event posters and dance merchandise into a procession of tiny performers rather than ordinary lettering. The theatrical movement also suits children's publishing, party invitations, and playful game graphics. Because the repeated heads, torsos, and bent limbs read as a cast of characters, the font makes human motion the subject of the design.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
Designed 1994 by Martin Bergman, Sweden. Moderated and generated as a TrueTypefont for Windows, ID 1419, in 1995 by Poul Steen Larsen, Denmark
Font family
Dancingmen
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Altsys Fontographer 4.1 Dancingmen
Full font name
Dancingmen
Name table version
Altsys Fontographer 4.1 30/07/95
Postscript font name
Dancingmen

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Revision1
Glyph count80
Units per Em1200
Embedding rightsLicensed font (protected)
Family classSymbolic
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureOutlined
PitchNot monospaced