Title: Cooper Black Type Specimen
2024

Project: Create a type specimen for the type face Cooper Black.

About: Cooper Black is an ultra-bold serif typeface intended for display use that was designed by Oswald Bruce Cooper and released by the Barnhart Brothers & Spindler type foundry in 1922. The typeface was drawn as an extra-bold weight of Cooper's "Cooper Old Style" family. It rapidly became a standard typeface and was licensed by American Type Founders and also copied by many other manufacturers of printing systems.
Cooper Black originated from Oswald Cooper's career as a lettering artist in Chicago and the Midwest of America in the 1920s. Cooper Black was advertised as being "for far-sighted printers with near-sighted customers", as well as "the Black Menace" by detractors. While very bold, Cooper Black is based on traditional "old-style" serif lettering, rather than the hard-edged "fat face" fonts popular in the nineteenth century, giving it a soft, 'muddy' appearance, with relatively low contrast between thick and thin strokes.

Technology/Software:
- Adobe Illustrator

Title: Unit Slab Ultra Type Specimen
2021

Project: Create a type specimen for the type face Unit Slab.

About: FF Unit Slab Ultra is a heavy slab serif typeface designed in 2009 by Christian Schwartz, Erik Spiekermann, and Kris Sowersby as a complementary, more formal partner to the FF Unit sans-serif font. It is characterized by its condensed, sturdy forms with blocky serifs, often used for strong headlines and titles. The "Ultra" variant signifies a bold, single weight specifically designed for high impact, and the family includes OpenType features like lining and oldstyle figures

Technology/Software:
- Adobe Illustrator