photo by: KUHoops on social media

The Kansas men's basketball team debuted new jerseys using the circus font, modeled by Hunter Dickinson, on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024.

The Kansas men’s basketball team debuted on Wednesday a new set of home and away jerseys on which it has returned to using the so-called “circus” font.

These are expected to serve as the Jayhawks’ primary uniforms for the 2024-25 campaign. KU previously switched from circus to Trajan font ahead of the 2007-08 season.

The Jayhawks have occasionally worn the circus font on one jersey or another in the nearly two decades since — take last year’s games against Yale and BYU, for example — but Trajan has long served as the main option for KU.

Now, both the football and men’s basketball teams seem to be on their way to phasing it out.

The fresh men’s basketball offerings follow the implementation of new football jerseys over the course of the 2023 and 2024 seasons, although those primarily use more standard block lettering — but the Blackhawk football jerseys do employ the circus font.

Of note, the women’s basketball team is still using Trajan font.

KU posted on social media an in-depth look at the home white uniform, which highlights the use of a blue plaid pattern at the bottom of its white shorts that apparently “pays homage to James Naismith’s iconic plaid wardrobe.”

Both the white home and blue road jerseys are available for purchase at KU’s online shop, kustore.com.

When the Jayhawks debut these jerseys, they will do so in a newly renovated Allen Fieldhouse, which will reopen officially for Late Night in the Phog on Oct. 18.