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Cooper Black Condensed Font
Published: Jul 22, 2013
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Description: Cooper Black Condensed Font
Cooper Black Condensed is a less wide, but not squished variation on Cooper Black.
The history of this typefaces: Cooper Black, the most famous & successful of Oswald Cooper’s type designs was released in 1920, following a year of development fleshing out the weight of the typeface & filling out the full character set. Cooper redrew the lowercase characters multiple times, toying with the rounded forms of the “m” & “n” & engaged in a lively debate with Barnhart Bros. & Spindler’s General Manager Richard N. McArthur over the final form as McArthur requested that the typeface be drawn bolder & bolder. Cooper famously said the face was “for far-sighted printers with near-sighted customers”, & the public agreed. Sales of Cooper Black were voluminous, & Barnhart Brothers & Spindler had a difficult time keeping up with the demand for the typeface. Conservative typographers were critical of Cooper Black, though it was overwhelmingly popular, helping to shape the American advertising landscape through the 1920s & 1930s.
1925 saw the release of Cooper Black Condensed, a “condensed but not squeezed” variation on the Cooper Black theme. McArthur & Cooper had the usual lively back-and-forth over the shapes of some of the letterforms, in particularly the uppercase “Q”, resulting in a thoroughly accomplished alphabet. The first showing specimen of Cooper Black Condensed compared the new face with Cooper Black, showing that it was 20 less wide & that it promised to “show something of gentility while being able to spit on its hands & make itself useful”.
This typeface is the result of researching & faithfully redrawing characters from Cooper’s original drawings & series of engraved proofs for this typeface. The typeface includes the full range of punctuation & diacritics that fill out a full character set. The typeface has been lovingly kerned for the smoothest result in text setting.
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