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Americana™


Americana™ is a Kingsley/ATF font family.

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Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: January 1st, 2000
Designed by: Richard Isbell, Whedon Davis
Designed when: 1965
Contained in Categories: Decorative & Display, Garalde, Glyphic
Design owned by: Kingsley/ATF
MyFonts Keywords: 1960s, american, complex, decorative, elegant, flareserif, fragile, garalde, glyphic, label, magazine, roman, romanserif, sensible, serif, tinyserif, valuable, wide, newsheadline [suggest]


Americana

An original design by by Richard Isbell for ATF; in exaggerating the tapered stroke introduced eleven years earlier in Hermann Zapf’s Optima, Isbell created the first flareserif to achieve popularity in the United States.


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