Category | Serif; display type |
---|---|
Designer(s) | Oswald Bruce Cooper |
Foundry | Barnhart Brothers & Spindler |
Date released | 1922 |
Re-issuing foundries | American Type Founders, Wordshape |
Cooper Black is an ultra-bold seriftypeface intended for display use that was designed by Oswald Bruce Cooper and released by the Barnhart Brothers & Spindler type foundry in 1922.[1] The typeface was drawn as an extra-bold weight of Cooper's 'Cooper Old Style' family. It rapidly became a standard typeface and was licensed by American Type Founders and also copied by many other manufacturers of printing systems.[2][3][4]
Cooper Bold DHBK Tp. HCM:231:Cooper Cooper Bold 1. 0 Cooper-Bold.
Cooper Black followed on from Cooper's career as a lettering artist in Chicago and the Midwest of America in the 1920s.[3][5][6] Cooper Black was advertised as being 'for far-sighted printers with near-sighted customers', as well as 'the Black Menace' by detractors.[7] While very bold, Cooper Black is based on traditional 'old-style' serif lettering, rather than the hard-edged 'fat face' fonts popular in the nineteenth century, giving it a soft, 'muddy' appearance, with relatively low contrast between thick and thin strokes.[8][9][10][8][11]
Cooper Hilite[edit]
Cooper Hilite is a version of Cooper Black originally designed by painting white relief impressions into a printed proof of Cooper Black.[3] It has been digitised by ParaType and Wordshape.[12]
![Cooper Cooper](/uploads/1/2/5/7/125716208/493440862.png)
Imitations and variants[edit]
Cooper Black was immediately popular and spawned imitations, including Goudy Heavy Face from Frederic Goudy, Ludlow Black and Pabst Extra Bold.[13][14] Cooper Black remains popular: the editors of the typography discussion website Fonts in Use report more submissions of its use than any other face that is not a sans-serif, although outnumbered by Times New Roman once its many variants are added up.[15]
Many unusual versions of Cooper were created in the phototypesetting period of the 1960s and 1970s, a period of explosion in production of display faces. These included 'Ziptop Cooper Black' from Photo Lettering Inc., a version with the top bolder than the bottom, and other distorted variants.[16]
Many digitisations of Cooper Black exist from companies including Bitstream, Adobe and others.[8] Soap, designed by Ray Larabie of Typodermic, is a uni-case variant.[17] A version from URW, which does not include an italic, is bundled with many Microsoft products.[18] Cooper Old Style has been digitised by URW.[19]
Gallery[edit]
- A specimen sheet of Cooper Hilite.
- Cooper Black compared to Cooper's earlier Cooper Old Style. This was a quirky variation on the old-style serif model, similar to Cooper's lettering and predominantly intended for display and advertising use.
- Goudy Heavy, a metal-type competitor commissioned by Monotype from Cooper's former lettering teacher, Frederic Goudy.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^'Cooper Black'. Fonts in Use. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
- ^Neil Macmillan (2006). An A-Z of Type Designers. Yale University Press. p. 69. ISBN0-300-11151-7.
- ^ abcHeller, Steven. 'Telling and selling'. Eye. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
- ^Eisinger, Dale. 'The Complete History of the Cooper Black Font in Hip-Hop'. Complex. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
- ^Shinn, Nick. 'The Golden Age of Hand Lettering in American Advertising'. Type Culture. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- ^Middleton, R. Hunter (1937). Chicago Letter Founding. Chicago: Black Cat Press. pp. 22–23. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
- ^Steven Heller (6 May 2014). Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design. Allworth Press. pp. 217–9. ISBN978-1-62153-413-6.
- ^ abcHeck, Bethany. 'Cooper'. Font Review Journal. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
- ^Phinney, Thomas. 'Fat faces'. Graphic Design and Publishing Centre. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
- ^Kennard, Jennifer. 'The Story of Our Friend, the Fat Face'. Fonts in Use. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
- ^Bramley, Ellie Violet. 'Just my type: how Cooper Black became 2017's most fashionable font'. The Guardian. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
- ^'Cooper Hilite'. Fonts in Use. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
- ^Tracy, Walter. Letters of Credit. pp. 130–1.
- ^http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/goudy-heavyface/
- ^@fontsinuse (5 March 2018). 'Congrats, Cooper Black! 💯 First non-sans to reach one hundred documented Uses' (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^Coles, Stephen. 'Ziptop Cooper Black'. Fonts in Use. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
- ^http://www.typodermic.com/46.html
- ^'Cooper Black'. Microsoft. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
- ^'Cooper Old Style'. MyFonts. URW. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
- Allan Haley. Typographic Milestones. John Wiley and Sons: September 1992. ISBN978-0-471-28894-7.
- Blackwell, Lewis. 20th Century Type. Yale University Press: 2004. ISBN0-300-10073-6.
- Fiedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Through History. Black Dog & Leventhal: 1998. ISBN1-57912-023-7.
- Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983. ISBN0-7137-1347-X.
- Macmillan, Neil. An A–Z of Type Designers. Yale University Press: 2006. ISBN0-300-11151-7.
External links[edit]
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cooper_Black&oldid=901025997'
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- Cooper Black V1StyleRegularCopyrightCopyright (c) 1991 Digital Typeface Corp.Regular
- Cooper Black V2StyleRegularCopyrightData copyright URW Software & Type GmbH., additional data copyright The Monotype Corporation. Copyright 1994 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.Regular
- Cooper Black BTStyleBlackVersionmfgpctt-v1.28 Friday, April 3, 1992 10:04:26 am (EST)CopyrightCopyright 1990-1992 Bitstream Inc. All rights reserved.Black
- Cooper Black ProStylecom.myfonts.easy.sofVersion1;com.myfonts.easy.softmaker.cooper-black-pro.regular.wfkit2.version.4CskTrademarkCooper Black is a trademark of SoftMaker Software GmbH and its licensors.CopyrightCopyright (c) 2015 by SoftMaker Software GmbH and its licensors. All rights reserved.DescriptionCopyright (c) 2015 SoftMaker Software GmbH and its licensorscom.myfonts.easy.sof
- Cooper Black W01StyleRegularCompanyLinotype GmbHTrademarkCooper Black is a trademark of Linotype GmbH and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.CopyrightPart of the digitally encoded machine readable outline data for producing the Typefaces provided is copyrighted 2007 Linotype GmbH, www.linotype.com. All rights reserved. This software is the property of Linotype GmbH, and may not be reproduced, used, displayed, modified, disclosed or transferred without the express written approval of Linotype GmbH. Copyright (c) 1987, 1991, 1995, 1998 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. Cooper Black is a trademark of Linotype GmbH and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. This typeface is original artwork of Oswald Cooper. The design may be protected in certain jurisdictions.LicenseNOTIFICATION OF LICENSE AGREEMENTYou have obtained this font software either directly from Linotype GmbH or together with software distributed by one of Linotype's licensees.This font software is a valuable asset of Linotype GmbH. Unless you have entered into a specific license agreement granting you additional rights, your use of this font software is limited to your workstation for your own use. You may not copy or distribute this font software. If you have any questions regarding your license terms, please review the license agreement you received with the software.General license terms and usage rights can be viewed at www.linotype.com/license.Generelle Lizenzbedingungen und Nutzungsrechte finden Sie unter www.linotype.com/license.Pour plus d'informations concernant le contrat d'utilisation du logiciel de polices, veuillez consulter notre site web www.linotype.com/license.Linotype GmbH can be contacted at:Tel.: +49(0)6172 484-418RegularOswald Cooper
- Cooper Black BT V1StyleBlackCopyrightCopyright 1990-1999 Bitstream Inc. All rights reserved.BlackOswald Cooper
- Cooper Black BT V2StyleBlackVersionmfgpctt-v1.50 Thursday, December 24, 1992 10:50:29 am (EST)CopyrightCopyright 1990-1992 Bitstream Inc. All rights reserved.BlackOswald Cooper
- Cooper Black ItalicStyleRegularCopyright(c) COPYRIGHT H. BERTHOLD AG 1992 Alle Rechte vorbehalten.RegularOswald Cooper
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- Cooper Black Italic BTStyleBlack ItalicCopyrightCopyright 1990-1999 Bitstream Inc. All rights reserved.Black ItalicOswald Cooper
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- Cooper Black W01 ItalicStyleRegularCompanyLinotype GmbHTrademarkCooper Black is a trademark of Linotype GmbH and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.CopyrightPart of the digitally encoded machine readable outline data for producing the Typefaces provided is copyrighted 2007 Linotype GmbH, www.linotype.com. All rights reserved. This software is the property of Linotype GmbH, and may not be reproduced, used, displayed, modified, disclosed or transferred without the express written approval of Linotype GmbH. Copyright (c) 1987, 1991, 1995, 1998 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. Cooper Black is a trademark of Linotype GmbH and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. This typeface is original artwork of Oswald Cooper. The design may be protected in certain jurisdictions.LicenseNOTIFICATION OF LICENSE AGREEMENTYou have obtained this font software either directly from Linotype GmbH or together with software distributed by one of Linotype's licensees.This font software is a valuable asset of Linotype GmbH. Unless you have entered into a specific license agreement granting you additional rights, your use of this font software is limited to your workstation for your own use. You may not copy or distribute this font software. If you have any questions regarding your license terms, please review the license agreement you received with the software.General license terms and usage rights can be viewed at www.linotype.com/license.Generelle Lizenzbedingungen und Nutzungsrechte finden Sie unter www.linotype.com/license.Pour plus d'informations concernant le contrat d'utilisation du logiciel de polices, veuillez consulter notre site web www.linotype.com/license.Linotype GmbH can be contacted at:Tel.: +49(0)6172 484-418RegularOswald Cooper
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