Cooper Black

Cooper Black the rounded fat face is an emblematic twentieth -century typeface. Cooper Black was designed by Oswald Cooper mainly for advertising, which represented the Chicago style. Cooper, the designer, was a talented artist who had the luck to meet Fred Bertsch, the business man , who later became his partner and opened their first studio: Bertsch & Cooper. Barnhart Brothers & Spindler Type Foundry asked Cooper to create a complete family based on his lettering. So he did and in 1918 the typeface Cooper was released and later was named Cooper Old Style. He later created Cooper Black, the super bold type. The last of his designs for BB&S was the Cooper Fullface or also known as Cooper Modern.