Cooper Italic Complete Font Family Free Download

Cooper Italic Complete Font typeface is the definitive version of Oswald Bruce Cooper Italic Complete Font classic typeface Cooper Italic.

1924 saw the release of Cooper Italic Complete Font, the italic companion to Cooper Oldstyle. Cooper Italic Complete Font possesses “a most unusual swing” in a number of the characters, most specifically the scooped, pigeon-toed feet of the lowercase “n”, “h”, and “m”.

Cooper Italic Complete Font These idiosyncratic characters are offset by more stately and assured capitals. Cooper Italic Complete Font said that his Italic is “much closer to its parent pen form than the roman” and “that freedom is almost the life of it”.

Cooper Italic Complete Font was a firm believer in creating humanist letterforms that echo the hand that created them, not wringing the life out of them through refinement and mechanization.

In Cooper Italic Complete Font own words about Cooper Italic, “The designer is conscious of its crudity, and of its irreverence for the best traditions.

But he believes that there are enough good types already– that the need is for poor types that can be used! And since he admits this to be a poor one, there now remains to be found out only whether it is usable or not.”

Cooper was long a believer that good type should be homely- if too pretty or sleek, its lifespan would be exponentially shortened.

Cooper designed a set of swash capitals to pair with Cooper Italic in 1927 that had not been released until now.

The swash capitals are a lively interpretation of round serifed old-style caps mixed with classic Caslon italic forms.

These two typefaces are the result of researching Cooper’s original drawings and series of engraved proofs for both typefaces.

The typefaces include the original ligatures (never before released digitally), the previously unreleased Swash characters, and a range of punctuation and diacritics, et al, that fill out a full character set. The typefaces have been lovingly kerned for the smoothest result in text settings.