Dancingmen Police

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.