Quality Type Listings - Indiana, USA

[Dave Hughes]

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60 point Cooper Black (BB&S & ATF#1590) Letterpress Type for printing #2*

The seller has several type lots for sale. See their OTHER ITEMS*

Seller's description:

"Cooper Black is the best known of a number of typefaces designed by Oswald Bruce Cooper, Chicago lettering artist, but it is not the first or most unusual. They resulted from a policy of BB&S, the large Chicago type foundry, of seeking original designs and encouraging modern artists to add their talented contributions to typographic resources. Cooper Black was issued in 1922, a super-black design which fully represented Cooper's unique style and started a new trend in advertising typography. Cooper called it 'for far-sighted printers with near-sighted customers.' This became the foundry's best selling type before its merger with ATF seven years later, and ATF's all time second best selling type after Copperplate Gothic)."*

* Mac McGrew, "American Typefaces of the Twentieth Century", Second Revised Edition, p. 105.

NOTE: This set is missing capital Z. It is complete in lowers, numbers and punctuation.

Please see my other Cooper Black type face listings available in 72 and 48 point!!!

Thanks!
Gretchen

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