Italic Font Generator
In 1919 Oswald Cooper designed for BB&S: an informal roman with soft serifs. Butit was the hugely successful Black weight, following three yearslater, that blazed the trail for extra bold advertising type inAmerica.
Also cast as Pittsburgh Black (ToC),Signum (Caslon), Wentworth Black(Wimble). Reichardt were available for the italic, and manyother swashes were later added by phototype shops. Was released in 1925.Licensed by Schriftguss in Germany who added FetteCopra-Kursiv (1929, different from BB&S’s BlackItalic, 1926), Halbfette Cooper-Antiqua(semibold, 1931) Klimsch, Seemann, and LichteCooper-Kursiv (an open adaptation of the italic, copied byBB&S in 1928 as Cooper Tooled Italic)McGrew. In 1919 Oswald Cooper designed for BB&S: an informal roman with soft serifs. But it was the hugely successful Black weight, following three years later, that blazed the trail for extra bold advertising type in America.
Free Script Font With Swash
Also cast as Pittsburgh Black (ToC), Signum (Caslon), Wentworth Black (Wimble). Reichardt were available for the italic, and many other swashes were later added by phototype shops. Was released in 1925.Licensed by Schriftguss in Germany who added Fette Copra-Kursiv (1929, different from BB&S’s Black Italic, 1926), Halbfette Cooper-Antiqua (semibold, 1931) Klimsch, Seemann, and Lichte Cooper-Kursiv (an open adaptation of the italic, copied by BB&S in 1928 as Cooper Tooled Italic) McGrew.’s digitization offers a variation without angled bottom serifs on ‘p’ and ‘q’.