Commercial · Display · Linotype
Cooper Black
Cooper Black is a licensed font from Linotype: Complete family of 2 fonts: $51.99 USD, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 2 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. Cooper Black is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Oswald Bruce Cooper
- Released
- 1922
- Styles
- 2
- Classification
- Display
- Price
- Complete family of 2 fonts: $51.99 USD (Individual Styles from $25.99 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Oswald Bruce Cooper's extra-bold roman built on his Cooper Old Style, produced by Barnhart Brothers & Spindler in 1922 and given an italic at Schriftguss AG; two styles.
Free alternatives to Cooper Black
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Cooper Black is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Alfa Slab One webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Alfa Slab One.
commonly substituted
An extremely black display slab with big serifs; used where Cooper Black's heavy, friendly headline role is needed, though it is a slab rather than a rounded roman.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Bevan webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Bevan.
same classification
A heavy display slab from a 1930s Jost design; similar poster weight, squarer than Cooper Black's soft contours.
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