Braggadocio (typeface)
Geometric sans-serif display typeface
title: "Braggadocio (typeface)" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["monotype-typefaces", "geometric-sans-serif-typefaces", "display-typefaces", "typefaces-and-fonts-introduced-in-1930"] description: "Geometric sans-serif display typeface" topic_path: "general/monotype-typefaces" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braggadocio_(typeface)" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Geometric sans-serif display typeface ::
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| 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 |
| :: |
| 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 |}}
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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