In 1919 Oswald Cooper designed his eponymous
typeface for BB&S: an informal roman with soft serifs. But
it was the hugely successful Black weight, following three years
later, that blazed the trail for extra bold advertising type in
America. Also cast as Pittsburgh Black (ToC),
Signum (Caslon), Wentworth Black
(Wimble). [Reichardt]
Alternate swash caps were available for the italic, and many
other swashes were later added by phototype shops. Cooper
Hilite was released in 1925.
Licensed by Schriftguss in Germany who added Fette
Copra-Kursiv (1929, different from BB&S’s Black
Italic, 1926), Halbfette Cooper-Antiqua
(semibold, 1931) [Klimsch, Seemann], and Lichte
Cooper-Kursiv (an open adaptation of the italic, copied by
BB&S in 1928 as Cooper Tooled Italic)
[McGrew]. More…
In 1919 Oswald Cooper designed his eponymous typeface for BB&S: an informal roman with soft serifs. But it was the hugely successful Black weight, following three years later, that blazed the trail for extra bold advertising type in America. Also cast as Pittsburgh Black (ToC), Signum (Caslon), Wentworth Black (Wimble). [Reichardt] Alternate swash caps were available for the italic, and many other swashes were later added by phototype shops. Cooper Hilite was released in 1925.
Licensed by Schriftguss in Germany who added Fette Copra-Kursiv (1929, different from BB&S’s Black Italic, 1926), Halbfette Cooper-Antiqua (semibold, 1931) [Klimsch, Seemann], and Lichte Cooper-Kursiv (an open adaptation of the italic, copied by BB&S in 1928 as Cooper Tooled Italic) [McGrew].
Bitstream’s digitization offers a variation without angled bottom serifs on ‘p’ and ‘q’.
