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Braggadocio (typeface)

Geometric sans-serif display typeface

Summary

Geometric sans-serif display typeface

Field	Value
name	Braggadocio
image	BraggadocioSP.png
imagesize	250px
style	Geometric sans-serif
Display
creationdate	1929–1930
creator	W.A. Woolley
foundry	Monotype Corporation
based_on	Futura Black

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Braggadocio is a geometrically constructed sans-serif stencil typeface designed by W.A. Woolley in 1930 for the Monotype Corporation. The design was based on Futura Black.

Though a stencil face, Braggadocio bears comparison with the heavier weighted Didone "fat face" fonts. A product of the Art Deco era, Braggadocio shares similarities with Architype Albers and Futura Black, the typeface used in the wordmark of Au Bon Pain, a U.S. restaurant-bakery chain.

The lowercase characters a, f, c, s and y have terminals similar to the Fat Face model. The face is atypical in that none of the characters has a circular hole.

References

Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopædia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983. .

References

[http://www.kibo.com/photos/bad_sign_lettering_2/ Kibo's Virtual Reality Tour: Signs LETTERING WITH A CAPITAL HELL page 2]

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