Burtonwood “BIG taste!” beermats
Contributed by Florian Hardwig on Mar 17th, 2021. Artwork published in
circa 1968
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“Burtonwood BIG taste!”
Various beermats by the Burtonwood Brewery in Burtonwood near Warrington, Cheshire, England, probably from around the late 1960s. Cooper Black Italic is paired with caps from the open Cooper Hilite. The big “BIG” in the first image is hand-drawn, see especially the counters in B or the flat serifs in I in comparison to the typeset versions in the images below. In two cases, the word “taste” features a double-storey a. It’s not a slanted roman, though. I’m not aware of a version of Cooper Black to include this form.
“Mild Bitter Top Hat ‘BIG taste!’ Beers”, with single sign painters’ quotes and all-caps Futura as secondary typeface.
