Cooper Black is an extremely heavy version of Cooper Oldstyle (likewise known merely as Cooper), an innovative typeface with rounded serifs and long ascenders developed in 1919. The Cooper family was the work of Oswald Bruce Cooper, co-owner of the Bertsch & & Cooper style firm in Chicago. Cooper Black was first released by the Barnhart Brothers & & Spindler foundry of Chicago in 1922. Oz Cooper loved saying that the Black fit the needs of "far-sighted printers with near-sighted consumers." Cooper Black set a trend in advertisement types which triggered such designers as Fred Goudy (among Cooper's early instructors) to do the same with their own black faces (compare Goudy Heavyface).
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