Three styles: Cooper Nouveau (upright, an amorphous
take on Cooper Black), Cooper Nouveau
Swash 7 (light italic, shown), and Cooper Nouveau
Swash 10 (bold italic) [PLINC One Liner 1971]. Drawn in 1966
[House
Industries]. Not yet shown in Alphabet Thesaurus
Vol. 2 (1965).
Cooper Playbill Swash is lighter, with horizontal
contrast. Latin Playbill Swash is similar to
Cooper Nouveau Swash, but with flared stems and
pointed terminals.
Funky
Swash (Lettergraphics, c. 1968) and Lazybones
(Letraset, 1972) are very similar to the bold weight of
Cooper Nouveau Swash.
In 2015, the light weight of Cooper More…
Three styles: Cooper Nouveau (upright, an amorphous take on Cooper Black), Cooper Nouveau Swash 7 (light italic, shown), and Cooper Nouveau Swash 10 (bold italic) [PLINC One Liner 1971]. Drawn in 1966 [House Industries]. Not yet shown in Alphabet Thesaurus Vol. 2 (1965).
Cooper Playbill Swash is lighter, with horizontal contrast. Latin Playbill Swash is similar to Cooper Nouveau Swash, but with flared stems and pointed terminals.
Funky Swash (Lettergraphics, c. 1968) and Lazybones (Letraset, 1972) are very similar to the bold weight of Cooper Nouveau Swash.
In 2015, the light weight of Cooper Nouveau Swash was revived by Dave Foster for the digital reincarnation of PLINC and is used for the sample. It was added to the House Industries catalog in 2020.
