Braggadocio (typeface)

Infobox font
name = Braggadocio


style = Geometric sans-serif Display
date = 1929–1930
creator = W.A. Woolley
foundry = Monotype Corporation|

Braggadocio is a geometrically constructed sans-serif stencil typeface designed by W.A. Woolley in 1930 for the Monotype Corporation.

Though a stencil face, Braggadocio bears comparison with the heavier weighted Didone faces like Thorogood, Poster Bodonii, and Fat Face. A product of the Art Deco era, Braggadocio shares similarites 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, and s have terminals similar to the Fat Face model. The face is unusual Fact|date=May 2008 in a topological sense in that none of the characters has a circular counter-form (hole).

See also: Samples of display typefaces

References

*Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. "The Encyclopædia of Type Faces." Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983. ISBN 0-7137-1347-X.

External links

* [http://fonts.goldenweb.it/pan_file/l/en/font2/Braggadocio.ttf/d2/True_Type_Fonts/c/b/default.html Truetype version of Braggadocio]