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Americana™

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Americana™ is a Bitstream font family with 5 styles priced from $24.75.

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Americana™


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  Americana Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesTurkishDingbats & Symbols
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  Americana Italic Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesTurkishDingbats & Symbols
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  Americana Bold Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesTurkishDingbats & Symbols
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$74.25

Americana Extra BoldPurchase Options
  Americana Extra Bold Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesTurkishDingbats & Symbols
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$24.75

Americana Extra Bold CondensedPurchase Options
  Americana Extra Bold Condensed Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesTurkishDingbats & Symbols
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$24.75

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Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: January 1st, 2000
Designed by: Richard Isbell, Whedon Davis
Designed when: 1965
Letterform design based on: Americana
Contained in Categories: Decorative & Display, Garalde
Design owned by: Kingsley/ATF
MyFonts Keywords: 1960s, American, complex, decorative, elegant, flare serif, fragile, Garalde, inscribed, label, magazine, news headline, roman, roman serif, sensible, serif, tiny serif, valuable, wide


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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