Braggadocio is a geometrically constructed sans-serif stencil
typeface
A typeface (or font family) is the design of lettering that can include variations in size, weight (e.g. bold), slope (e.g. italic), width (e.g. condensed), and so on. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font.
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designed by W.A. Woolley in 1930 for the
Monotype Corporation
Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc., founded as Lanston Monotype Machine Company in 1887 in Philadelphia by Tolbert Lanston, is an American (historically Anglo-American) company that specializes in digital typesetting and typeface design for use with ...
. The design was based on
Futura Black
Futura is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Paul Renner and released in 1927. It was designed as a contribution on the New Frankfurt-project. It is based on geometric shapes, especially the circle, similar in spirit to the Bauhaus desi ...
.
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Though a stencil
Stencilling produces an image or pattern on a surface, by applying pigment to a surface through an intermediate object, with designed holes in the intermediate object, to create a pattern or image on a surface, by allowing the pigment to reach ...
face, Braggadocio bears comparison with the heavier weighted Didone "fat face
FatFace is a British lifestyle brand, based in Hampshire, which creates product ranges across women's, men's, kids, footwear and accessories. FatFace is a multichannel retailer, with an international digital business as well as over 180 store ...
" fonts. A product of the Art Deco
Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...
era, Braggadocio shares similarities with Architype Albers
Architype Albers is a modular stencil sans-serif typeface based upon a series of experiments between 1926 and 1931 by Josef Albers (1888–1976), German designer, educator and typographer. The Architype Albers typeface is one of a collection of se ...
and Futura Black, the typeface used in the wordmark
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A wordmark, word mark, or logotype, is usually a distinct text-only typographic treatment of the name of a company, institution, or product name used for purposes of identification and branding. Examples can be found in the graphic iden ...
of Au Bon Pain
Au Bon Pain (, meaning "at (or 'to') the Good Bread") is an American fast casual restaurant, bakery, and café chain headquartered in Richardson, Texas and operates 175 locations in the United States, and Thailand. The company is currently ow ...
, 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.
See also
*Stencil (typeface)
Stencil refers to two typefaces released within months of each other in 1937. The face created by
R. Hunter Middleton for Ludlow was advertised in June, while Gerry Powell's version for American Type Founders appeared one month later. Both ...
*Samples of display typefaces
This list details display typefaces used in typesetting and printing.
See also
*List of monospaced typefaces
* List of sans serif typefaces
*List of script type ...
References
*Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. ''The Encyclopædia of Type Faces.'' Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983. .
External links
Braggadocio Font Family – by W. A. Woolley
{{Monotype typefaces
Monotype typefaces
Geometric sans-serif typefaces
Display typefaces
Typefaces and fonts introduced in 1930