The first style of the Cooper family was the
standard roman weight (a.k.a. Cooper Old Style),
released in 1919. Cooper Black, released three years later, was
far more successful. There were also Italic (1924),
Hilite
(1925), Black Italic (1926), and Black
Condensed (c.1926) styles.
Licensed by Schriftguss in Germany who added Fette
Copra-Kursiv (1929, different from BB&S’s Black
Italic), Halbfette Cooper-Antiqua (semibold,
1931) [Klimsch] [Wetzig 1926–40], and Lichte
Cooper-Kursiv (an open adaptation of the italic, copied by
BB&S in 1928 as Cooper Tooled Italic) [McGrew 1993].
Phototype versions of Cooper Old Style with
Italic by PLINC [PLINC One Liner 1971] and VGC [VGC 1972], among others.
For historically accurate revivals of the lighter
Cooper, see Cooper Text (Wordshape, 2010, roman plus initials, italic) and the
open-source Cooper* (indestructible type*, 2024, roman and italic plus
more weights). Cooper Old Style (The Font
Company, c.1990, later by URW)
is not
historically accurate. Looser interpretations include
Cooper BT (Bitstream, 1985), Doyle (Sharp
Type, 2019), and More…
The first style of the Cooper family was the standard roman weight (a.k.a. Cooper Old Style), released in 1919. Cooper Black, released three years later, was far more successful. There were also Italic (1924), Hilite (1925), Black Italic (1926), and Black Condensed (c.1926) styles.
Licensed by Schriftguss in Germany who added Fette Copra-Kursiv (1929, different from BB&S’s Black Italic), Halbfette Cooper-Antiqua (semibold, 1931) [Klimsch] [Wetzig 1926–40], and Lichte Cooper-Kursiv (an open adaptation of the italic, copied by BB&S in 1928 as Cooper Tooled Italic) [McGrew 1993].
Phototype versions of Cooper Old Style with Italic by PLINC [PLINC One Liner 1971] and VGC [VGC 1972], among others.
For historically accurate revivals of the lighter Cooper, see Cooper Text (Wordshape, 2010, roman plus initials, italic) and the open-source Cooper* (indestructible type*, 2024, roman and italic plus more weights). Cooper Old Style (The Font Company, c.1990, later by URW) is not historically accurate. Looser interpretations include Cooper BT (Bitstream, 1985), Doyle (Sharp Type, 2019), and New Kansas (Newlyn, 2020). Berthold used to have a version as Cooper Oldstyle BQ.
