Archive for category: Cooper Black

Red H    (2008.01.01)

Chromostereoptic Cooper Black    (2006.07.03)

Cooper’s Barber Shop    (2006.06.17)

Oversharpening the photo gives the illusion that the ill-cut Cooper Black is raised out of the sign bed more than it is.

While this visual effect falsifies reality, I prefer it nonetheless.

Full Stop    (2005.12.30)

The line between the right and wrong kinds of tacky is too easily crossed with everyone’s favourite novelty font, Cooper Black.

But if it’s a “novelty” font, why does it continue to be used decades later, sometimes well? I actually like this sign.

Cooper on rye    (2005.11.07)

Neuland means “African-American” according to popular usage. Apparently Cooper Black now means “rye bread.”

I suppose it beats blackletter. Possibly too many connotations there.

Floor wax, dessert topping    (2005.08.20)

The 2005 Matching Tartan and Paisley Award for typographic miscegenation goes to Europa Fine Pastries & Bakery for the unforeseeable achievement of uniting Cooper Black with a “klassy” script face.

Painful hold, painful shoot    (2005.08.01)

It took two shoots at two locations to come up with a photo that’s only this good. That is indeed a fontmodded Cooper Black that attracts your immediate attention.

Somebody’s defaced it already. Here’s mud in your eye!