Broadway (typeface)

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.^{[citation needed]} Several variants were made:^[1]

• 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).

Broadway

Category	Sans Serif
Classification	Display
Designer(s)	Morris Fuller Benton
Commissioned by	American Type Founders
Foundry	American Type Founders
Date created	1927
Date released	1928
Re-issuing foundries	Lanston Monotype
Sample

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.