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Broadway (typeface)

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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
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and has ever since been used to evoke the feeling of the twenties and thirties. The font has been used in the TV shows
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Displays 'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789' in the Broadway font.
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Category
Sans Serif
Classification
Designer(s)
Morris Fuller Benton
American Type Founders
Foundry
American Type Founders
Re-issuing foundries
Lanston Monotype

typeface
Art Deco
Morris Fuller Benton
ATF
Cold Type Era
Rhoda
My Life as a Teenage Robot
Miami Vice
Morris Fuller Benton
ATF
Sol Hess
Monotype
Hess
Monotype
Benton
ATF
Linotype
Elsner+Flake

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