A letterpress playbill or circus poster set in wood type, each line a different ultra-condensed or fat face, centred, with rules and pointing hands between them, black plus one spot red. The showman's word for this kind of display was "flash".
Wood was lighter and cheaper than large metal type, and from 1828 a router and a pantograph could cut any face at any size, so printers competed with ever more extreme letters. Two inks meant two passes through the press, and the red rarely landed exactly on the black.
Wood and slab faces are set with letter spacing, the red layer is translated a few pixels off register, the figure's side faces are hatched as if cut in wood, and a speckle layer stands in for worn type. The two display fonts are web fonts the plate waits for before it draws.