"Park Avenue is a distinctive script design by Robert E. Smith, cut by ATF about 1933. It is not quite a joining script, although some letter combinations seem to do so. Lowercase is rather small, with long ascenders, some of which have an open loop. This is probably one of the most successful designs in the founder's project of replacing the delicate traditional scripts with more contemporary interpretations. It was adapted to Intertype in 1939, in a version that departs remarkably little from the original, considering that it is duplexed with the totally dissimilar Bernhard Fashion, the only obvious differences being the lining figures, the narrowing of a few capitals, and straightening of the lowercase "f" and "l" to fit the straight, non-kerning matrices. However, some capitals have excess blank space on the left side. It is popular for stationery and announcements. Baltimore copied the foundry version as Belair, while several other suppliers cast fonts from Intertype matrices."*

* Mac McGrew, "American Typefaces of the Twentieth Century", Second Revised Edition, p. 247.

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