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Broadway (typeface)

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Date released
  
1928

Category
  
Sans-serif

Designer
  
Morris Fuller Benton

Foundry
  
American Type Founders

Re-issuing foundries
  
Lanston Monotype

Classification
  
Display

Commissioned by
  
American Type Founders

Date created
  
1927

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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. Several variants were made:

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  • 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).

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    Digital Copies

    Digital versions are now made by Linotype, Elsner+Flake, Monotype, Bitstream, and URW++. ITC Manhattan is virtually identical and is sold by ITC and Linotype, while Glitzy is a knock-off made by Ingrimayne Type.

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    References

    Broadway (typeface) Wikipedia
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