braggadocio

1. A braggart.
2. 1. Empty or pretentious bragging.
   2. A swaggering, cocky manner.

[Alteration of Braggadocchio, the personification of vainglory in The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, from BRAG.]

noun

1. One given to boasting: boaster, brag, braggart, bragger, vaunter. Informal blowhard. Slang blower. See praise/blame.
2. An act of boasting: boast, brag, fanfaronade, gasconade, rodomontade, vaunt. Informal blow. See praise/blame.

braggadocio [brag‐ă‐doh‐chi‐oh], a cowardly but boastful man who appears as a stock character in many comedies; or the empty boasting typical of such a braggart. This sort of character was known in Greek comedy as the alazon. When he is a soldier, he is often referred to as the miles gloriosus (‘vainglorious soldier’) after the title of a comedy by the Roman dramatist Plautus. The most famous example in English drama is Shakespeare's Falstaff.

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: vain and empty boasting
  Synonyms: bluster, rodomontade, rhodomontade

Category	Geometric sans-serif Display
Designer(s)	W.A. Woolley
Foundry	Monotype Corporation

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.^[1]

Though a stencil face, Braggadocio bears comparison with the heavier weighted Didone faces like Thorogood, Poster Bodonii, and Fat Face. A product of the Art Deco era, Braggadocio shares similarites 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 unusual^{[citation needed]} in a topological sense in that none of the characters has a circular counter-form (hole).

See also

Samples of display typefaces

References

1. ^ Kibo's Virtual Reality Tour: Signs LETTERING WITH A CAPITAL HELL page 2

• Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopædia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983. ISBN 0-7137-1347-X.

External links

• Braggadocio Font Family - by W. A. Woolley
• Truetype version of Braggadocio

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