Braggadocio
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.
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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.
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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.
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• Name — Braggadocio • 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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1930
Braggadocio first recorded.
1930
Braggadocio was established or created in 1930.
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Multilingualism remixed: Sampling, braggadocio and the stylisation of local voice, Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2013.
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