Typeface · Serif
Cooper Black
Cooper Black is an ultrabold serif typeface intended for display use that was designed by Oswald Bruce Cooper and released by the Barnhart Brothers & Spindler type foundry in 1922.
About Cooper Black
Cooper Black is an ultrabold serif typeface intended for display use that was designed by Oswald Bruce Cooper and released by the Barnhart Brothers & Spindler type foundry in 1922. The typeface was drawn as an extra-bold weight of Cooper's "Cooper Old Style" family. It rapidly became a standard typeface and was licensed by American Type Founders and copied by many other manufacturers of printing systems.
From the Wikipedia article “Cooper Black”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Using Cooper Black in a book
Serif typefaces like this are the traditional choice for book body text: the serifs guide the eye along the line in long passages. Set novels at 10.5–12 pt with 125–140% leading.
Commercial typefaces require a licence that covers embedding in PDFs and ebooks; check the foundry's licence before you publish.
Sources & data
- Structured data from Wikidata Q3311696 (CC0).
- Summary text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).