Cooper Black Wikipedia. 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 1. The typeface was drawn as an extra bold weight of Coopers 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. Cooper Black followed on from Coopers career as a lettering artist in Chicago and the Midwest of America in the 1. Cooper Black was advertised as being for far sighted printers with near sighted customers, as well as the Black Menace by detractors. 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. Cooper Hiliteedit. A specimen sheet of Cooper Hilite. Cooper Hilite is a version of Cooper Black originally designed by painting white relief impressions into a printed proof of Cooper Black. It has been digitised by Para. Type and Wordshape. Imitations and variantsedit. Cooper Black compared to Coopers earlier Cooper Old Style. Adobe Premiere Lower Thirds'>Adobe Premiere Lower Thirds. This was a quirky variation on the old style serif model, similar to Coopers lettering and predominantly intended for display and advertising use. A/R/ArTarumianErevana.png' alt='Cooper Black Font' title='Cooper Black Font' />Cooper Black was immediately popular and spawned imitations, including Goudy Heavy Face from Frederic Goudy, Ludlow Black and Pabst Extra Bold. Many unusual versions of Cooper were created in the phototypesetting period of the 1. These included Ziptop Cooper Black from Photo Lettering Inc., a version with the top bolder than the bottom, and other distorted variants. Many digitisations of Cooper Black exist from companies including Bitstream, Adobe and others. Soap, designed by Ray Larabie of Typodermic, is a uni case variant. A version from URW, which does not include an italic, is bundled with many Microsoft products. Cooper Old Style has been digitised by URW. See alsoeditReferenceseditCooper Black. Fonts in Use. Retrieved 1. September 2. 01. 7. Neil Macmillan 2. An A Z of Type Designers. CooperBlackspec.svg/500px-CooperBlackspec.svg.png' alt='Cooper Black Font' title='Cooper Black Font' />Cooper Black TrueType font Download. Free Cooper Black TrueType font downloads for Windows, Linux and Mac. Search results for cooper Black font, free downloads of cooper Black fonts at Fonts101. Spyro 3 Pc Ita. Yale University Press. ISBN 0 3. 00 1. Heller, Steven. Telling and selling. Eye. Retrieved 1. September 2. 01. 7. Eisinger, Dale. The Complete History of the Cooper Black Font in Hip Hop. Complex. Retrieved 1. September 2. 01. 7. Shinn, Nick. The Golden Age of Hand Lettering in American Advertising. Type Culture. Retrieved 1 April 2. Cooper Black Font' title='Cooper Black Font' />Middleton, R. Hunter 1. Chicago Letter Founding. Chicago Black Cat Press. Retrieved 9 July 2. Steven Heller 6 May 2. Design Literacy Understanding Graphic Design. Allworth Press. pp. ISBN 9. 78 1 6. Heck, Bethany. Cooper. Font Review Journal. Retrieved 1. 2 September 2. Phinney, Thomas. Fat faces. Graphic Design and Publishing Centre. Retrieved 1. 0 August 2. Kennard, Jennifer. The Story of Our Friend, the Fat Face. Fonts in Use. Retrieved 1. High Speed High Current Mosfet Driver'>High Speed High Current Mosfet Driver. August 2. 01. 5.  Bramley, Ellie Violet. Just my type how Cooper Black became 2. The Guardian. Retrieved 1. September 2. 01. 7. Cooper Hilite. Fonts in Use. Retrieved 1. September 2. Tracy, Walter. Letters of Credit. Coles, Stephen. Ziptop Cooper Black. Fonts in Use. Retrieved 1. September 2. 01. 7. Cooper Black. Microsoft. Retrieved 1. 2 September 2. Cooper Old Style. My. Fonts. URW. Retrieved 1. November 2. 01. 7. Allan Haley. Typographic Milestones. John Wiley and Sons September 1. ISBN 9. 78 0 4. Blackwell, Lewis. Century Type. Yale University Press 2. ISBN 0 3. 00 1. Fiedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. Typography An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Through History. Black Dog Leventhal 1. ISBN 1 5. 79. 12 0. Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A. F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts. ISBN 0 7. 13. 7 1. X. Macmillan, Neil. An AZ of Type Designers. Yale University Press 2. ISBN 0 3. 00 1. External linksedit.