Broadway (typeface)
Typeface
title: "Broadway (typeface)" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["display-typefaces", "american-type-founders-typefaces", "letterpress-typefaces", "photocomposition-typefaces", "digital-typefaces", "typefaces-and-fonts-introduced-in-1928", "typefaces-designed-by-morris-fuller-benton"] description: "Typeface" topic_path: "geography/united-states" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_(typeface)" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Typeface ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Broadway |
| image | Broadway specimen.svg |
| style | Sans Serif |
| classifications | Display |
| creator | Morris Fuller Benton |
| commissioned_by | American Type Founders |
| foundry | American Type Founders |
| foundries | Lanston Monotype |
| creationdate | 1927 |
| releasedate | 1928 |
| :: |
| name = Broadway | image = Broadway specimen.svg | familyname = | style = Sans Serif | classifications = Display | creator = Morris Fuller Benton | commissioned_by = American Type Founders | foundry = American Type Founders | foundries = Lanston Monotype | creationdate = 1927 | releasedate = 1928 | trademark = | based_on = | aka = | variations = | sample = | shown_here = | sample_fullimage =
Broadway is a decorative typeface, perhaps the archetypal Art Deco typeface. The original face was designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1927 for ATF as a capitals-only display face. It had a long initial run of popularity, before being discontinued by ATF in 1954. It was re-discovered in the Cold Type Era and has ever since been used to evoke the feeling of the twenties and thirties. The font has been used in the TV shows Rhoda, My Life as a Teenage Robot, and Miami Vice. Several variants were made:
- Broadway (1928, Morris Fuller Benton, ATF), capitals only.
- Broadway Engraved (1928, Sol Hess, Monotype).
- Broadway (with lowercase) (1929, Hess, Monotype).
- Broadway Condensed (1929, Benton, ATF).
Digital Copies
Digital versions are now made by Linotype, Elsner+Flake, Monotype, Bitstream, and URW++. Similar fonts, such as ITC Manhattan and Glitzy are sold by ITC and Ingrimayne Type respectively.
References
References
- MacGrew, Mac, ''American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century'' Oak Knoll Books, New Castle Delaware, 1993, {{ISBN. 0-938768-34-4, pp. 50–51.
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