Braggadocio is a geometrically constructed sans-serif stencil

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face, Braggadocio bears comparison with the heavier weighted Didone "

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era, Braggadocio shares similarities with Architype Albers and Futura Black, the typeface used in the

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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. .

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Braggadocio Font Family – by W. A. Woolley

{{Monotype typefaces Monotype typefaces Geometric sans-serif typefaces Display typefaces Typefaces and fonts introduced in 1930

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