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20+ Fonts Similar to Cooper Black: Perfect for Retro Designs

Evoking the spirit of bygone eras, the chunky and popular Cooper Black font brings a retro touch to your designs. Oswald Bruce Cooper initially crafted this typeface, ideal for headlines and logotypes, and larger body copy. While Cooper Black stands out with its unique playful and vintage aesthetic, many other fonts share these qualities. Whether you're looking to create a vintage design or give your project an edgy, retro feel, there are multiple options available at YouWorkForThem. We've

Maple Drive: A Bold Serif Typeface

Maple Drive is a bold rounded serif typeface with a warm and familiar feel. Maple Drive delivers a groovy 1970s nostalgic vibe polished for modern day use. Maple Drive works great as a logotype, in magazines, headlines, posters, advertising, packaging, branding, social media, visual identity, publishing, and more. Maple Drive is definitely a font that can tell a story. It is a nostalgic font that evokes 1970s vintage books and films, beautifully conveying that warmth in both print and

An Astounding New Display Font from Connary Fagen

Designer Connary Fagen describes his new Mezzotint CF font as, "a daring and playful display typeface perfect for logotypes, posters, and editorial use. High-contrast strokes, flared serifs, aqueous connections, and inky terminals give Mezzotint CF its striking and rakish personality." Mezzotint CF is an achievement far beyond the written descriptions above. On seeing Mezzotint CF for the first time, we agree with "striking," but the overall power of Mezzotint CF is such that

A Fresh Alternative to Cooper Black Font

Bogart was designed in 2020 by Francesco Canovaro as a personal homage to the iconic look of low-contrast old-style fat faces, like Cooper Black (Oswald Bruce Cooper, 1922) and Goudy Heavy Face (Frederic W. Goudy and Sol Hess, 1925-1932). Originating from the modern old style of Bookman, these muddy, goopy shapes found their iconic pop-culture status thanks to rub-on transfers and phototypesetting systems in the 1960s and 1970s. Positively bursting with hippie energy and exuberant vitality,

Mocking the Past with Cassette Tape Mockups

Hey, Indieground, leave us 1980s veterans in peace! Sure, we know those cassette tapes. They were in our collection when we deejayed the junior high dance in 1981. Turntables? Mixes? Mashups? Nope. We brought our Panasonic tape player from home, and we played your cassettes into a microphone that was taped onto the table and connected to the school's Public Announcement System. A rocking setup for a rocking evening where we didn't stop believing and we approached our first crush with Open

An Elegant Art Nouveau Type Design From Louise Fili: Montecatini

Louise Fili has led an incredibly prolific career as a graphic designer and typographer. The director of Louise Fili Ltd in New York City, Louise worked as an art director for Pantheon Books for more than a decade, designing more than 2,000 book covers during that time. She has co-authored more than 25 books on design and typography, received three James Beard award nominations, and her work is among the permanent collections of the Library of Congress. Louise has also received a Lifetime

A Contemporary Vintage Sans And Script Duo From TypeType: TT Backwards

Established as one of St. Petersburg's very first digital type foundries in 2013, TypeType is dedicated to collaboration with graphic designers and typographers. When Ivan Gladkikh and Alexander Kudryavtsev founded TypeType, they might not have imagined the level of success the foundry would experience in the years to come, a prosperity that's due to their steadfast work ethic and high standards for type design. TypeType's products are geared toward the contemporary graphic designer,

Gaslon From Canada Type Revives A Curvaceous Film Classic

Located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada Type is a digital type studio established by Patrick Griffin and Rebecca Alaccari in 2004. They are intensely passionate about their work and their unwavering energy bleeds into every one of their type designs. Canada Type has worked with an impressive list of companies that include Pixar, Disney, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, and ABC. While Rebecca and Patrick often devise their own inventive typefaces, they have a particular fondness

Addington CF Offers Sophistication And Incredible Versatility

Connary Fagen is a graphic designer and typographer with a substantial background in art direction, identity, illustration, web and UI design, motion graphics, and of course, type design. "As a designer, I noticed early on how much typography affected the quality of my work," Connary told us. "I wanted to better understand the mechanics behind good type, which led to me developing original typefaces." This skill set also enabled him to augment his own font library, strengthening areas he

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