It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that these letter shapes are familiar. They have the unmistakable color and weight of Cooper Black, Oswald Cooper's most famous typeface from 1921. What should be a surprise is that these letters are actually from George Auriol's Robur Noir (or Robur Black), published in France circa 1909 by the Peignot foundry as a bolder, solid counterpart to its popular Auriol typeface (1901). This face precedes Cooper Black by a dozen of years and a whole Great War. Cooper Black has always been a bit of a strange typographical apparition to anyone who tried to explain its original purpose, instant popularity in the 1920s, and major revival in the late 1960s. BB&S and Oswald Cooper PR aside, it is quite evident that the majority of Cooper Black's forms did not evolve from Cooper Old Style, as its originators claimed. And the claim that it collected various Art Nouveau elements is of course too ambiguous to be questioned. But when compared with Robur Noir, the "elements" in question can hardly be debated. The chronology of this "machine age" ad face in metal is amusing and stands as somewhat of a general index of post-Great War global industrial competition: - 1901: Peignot releases Auriol, based on the handwriting of George Auriol (the "quintessential Art Nouveau designer," according to Steven Heller and Louise Fili), and it becomes very popular. - 1909-1912: Peignot releases the Robur family of faces. The eight styles released are Robur Noir and its italic, a condensed version called Robur Noir Allongée (Elongated) and its italic, an outline version called Clair De Lune and its condensed/elongated, a lined/striped version called Robur Tigre, and its condensed/elongated counterpart. - 1914 to 1918: World War One uses up economies on both sides of the Atlantic, claims Georges Peignot with a bullet to the forehead, and non-war industry stalls for 4 years. - 1921: BB&S releases Cooper Black with a lot of hype to hungry publishing, manufacturing and advertising industries. - 1924: Robert Middleton releases Ludlow Black. - 1924: The Stevens Shanks foundry, the British successor to the Figgins legacy, releases its own exact copies of Robur Noir and Robur Noir Allongée, alongside a lined version called Royal Lining. - 1925: Oswald Cooper releases his Cooper Black Condensed, with similar math to Robur Noir Allongée (20% reduction in width and vectical stroke). - 1925: Monotype releases Frederick Goudy's Goudy Heavy, an "answer to Cooper Black". Type historians gravely note it as the "teacher steals from his student" scandal. Goudy Heavy Condensed follows a few years later. - 1928: Linotype releases Chauncey Griffith's Pabst Extra Bold. The condensed counterpart is released in 1931. When type production technologies changed and it was time to retool the old faces for the Typositor age, Cooper Black was a frontrunning candidate, while Robur Noir was all but erased from history. This was mostly due to its commercial revival by flourishing and media-driven music and advertising industries. By the late 1960s variations and spinoffs of Cooper Black were in every typesetting catalog. In the early- to mid-1970s, VGC, wanting to capitalize on the Art Nouveau onslaught, published an uncredited exact copy of Robur Black under the name Skylark. But that also went with the dust of history and PR when digital tech came around, and Cooper Black was once again a prime retooling candidate. The "old fellows stole all of our best ideas" indeed. So almost a hundred years after its initial fizz, Robur is here in digital form, to reclaim its rightful position as the inspiration for, and the best alternative to, Cooper Black. Given that its forms date back to the turn of the century, a time when foundry output had a closer relationship to calligraphic and humanist craft, its shapes are truer to brush strokes and much more idiosyncratic than Cooper Black in their totality's construct. Robur and Robur Italic come in all popular font formats. Language support includes Western, Central and Eastern European character sets, as well as Baltic, Esperanto, Maltese, Turkish, and Celtic/Welsh languages. A range of complementary f-ligatures and a few alternates letters are included within the fonts.

I Am Black is a sophisticated, charming sans serif font with a fashionable touch. Specially designed for luxury, elegant, feminine projects, this font is perfectly suitable for creating modern, chic designs. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all the glyphs and ligatures with ease!

Qoutiens is a signature style font. made by following the handwritten pattern to produce a natural and elegant shape and produce a beautiful and classy shape. This font also comes with an Opentype feature to add an alternative style to the design. happy work and enjoy this awesome font ..

Hello Everyone, introduce our new product Font Biker Boys This Is Hand Drawn Display Font.This is a Textured Natural Style and classy style with a clear style and dramatic movement. This font Biker Boys is great for your next creative project such as logos, printed quotes, invitations, cards, product.

Freak Mailers is a rounded combination font duo. Sans serif typeface with crazy Script Typeface . But make this font look unique. Freak Mailers clean classic and mindful , it combine in one font, use this font for anything beauty place for your logo, headline, cover book, magazine and many more.

This unique font is influenced by the graffiti writing on the walls of Los Angeles. Raw and Uncut. This font can be used on web pages, banners, hats, shirts, advertising. Perfect for all streetwear brands, music groups, and whoever else looking for that raw Los Angeles street style.

hello !! this time I released a new product called "all in" which has an elegant and modern style.This font is suitable for invitation cards, decorations, clothing products, greeting cards and others. This font also has uppercase, lowercase, numeric, puntuation and multilingual. and there are several ligature and stylistic alternate.

Aye, me lovelies, this be Scurvy Dog, a grand font! The letters were etched into a dead man's chest with a blunt rapier, pickled in brine and covered in spew. Ye could be using this crafty penmanship for yer logs or writing yer dear ol' mothers a letter.

This rough-and-tumble typeface is inspired by lettering in the Book of Kells. Celtic knots can be found in the ASCII circumfles (^), ASCII tilde (~), florin (ƒ) and section (§) positions. Both versions of this font support the Latin 1252, Central European 1250, Turkish 1254 and Baltic 1257 codepages.

Introducing a vintage look label font named "Original Absinthe". This family includes seven styles - Regular, Inline, Shadow, Inline FX, Shadow FX, Full and Aged. The posters show the result of combining them. This font will be great for any retro design like poster, t-shirt, label, logo etc.

Daytonia is a handmade script font. You can use this font for every project. Suitable for branding logo, hand lettering, or apparel design. This font also has multilingual support, numbers and symbols, alternates, swashes, and underlines. Daytonia is already PUA Encoded. Don't hesitate to contact me at saridezra@gmail.com

Above Ground this is a handwritten brush font for a wide range of design ideas. It is perfect for creating posters, flyers, integrating blogs, banners, designing social pages, designing T-shirts, magazines, book covers, packaging and much more. This fonts is easy to use and has OpenType features.

Introducing a vintage look label font named Western Whiskey. All available characters you can see at the screenshot. This font have 6 styles - Regular, Full, Shadow, Texture, Shadow FX and Texture FX. This font will good viewed on any retro design like poster, t-shirt, label, logo etc.

This special newstext version of TheAntiqua was developed in close collaboration with the Berlin newspaper Die Tages­zeitung (taz). Its sturdy forms were optimized for newspaper stock. This font family is currently being reworked and will be further developed with variable weights that can be adjusted to clients’ specifications.

Gokil is an unique bold display font with rounded edges. You can use this font in retro, vintage, and hipster designs. This font is perfect for a variety of projects, such as branding, poster displays, logo designs, magazines, headlines, stickers, and more.This font also has alternate and ligature features.

Hanniel - a modern geometric sans serif font. This font has an elegant and smooth rounded edge style. Specifically developed to be suitable for logos, headlines, titles, branding, visual identity, business cards, and posters. Round out your fonts collection with this gorgeous typeface and make your design look exceptional.

Folklore Story is a cute handwritten font that contain lowercase, uppercase, symbol, and also support multi language. This package also comes with italic, and bold version. You can use this fonts to make a logo for branding, for book cover, merchandise, or handwritten quote. Foreign Languages Support: ÀÁÂÃÄÅÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïñòóôõöøùúûüýÿ

Beskill is a modern handwritten script font. Every hand stroke, we keep it simple. The ligature is also available which gives a beautiful impression on this font. This font is perfect for your project or branding such as quotes, weddings, headings, designs, logos, invitations, and more! Thank you!

A mixture of bold and fine line helps this distinctive design evoke the spirit of the 1930s Jazz Age. Due to the modular nature of this design there may be a slight lack of smoothness to the curves at very large point sizes (around 100 pt and above).

Fortune is a cute and simple handwritten font. This font will look great on any design idea. It will add a cute and romantic touch to any of your projects, This font is also specially made for those who need a beautiful and refreshing look for their designs!

This font has been derived from different transformations of the moon transcending into different moods which affect the world. A full moon can cause human beings to be aggressive. While a new moon is a good time for new beginnings. This font can function as headings and subheadings.

Red Mignolet is a hand-drawn slab type brush font. This font adopts a bold, firm, natural and trendy style. Very suitable to meet your design and packaging product needs at this time, especially when the current trend is Branding on MUG or CUP with natural fonts like painted!

Khalitta is a modern calligraphy font. This font is very elegant and beautiful and is perfect for all types of your work. This font is perfect for weddings, branding and logos, for marketing your business, status updates on social media, and for capturing beautiful and romantic moments, and more.

Bold geometric shapes, softened with graceful finishes, characterize this jazz-age offering first proposed by lettering artist Eric Matthews. Best used as upper- and lowercase. Both versions of this font contain the Unicode 1252 Latin and Unicode 1250 Central European character sets, with localization for Romanian and Moldovan.

Greater Albion always releases a Black letter each year, hopefully well before the Christmas seas (which we seem to have managed this year - September). There is something about this year's project which suggests a caste portcullis to us. Why not visit ye olde world in your next designer project?

Ever been tired on a Sunday? I have...and actually that was the feeling I had, when I started making this font. Nevertheless, when working on this font, my Sunday just got a whole lot better! Hope it'll make your Sunday (or any other day!) good as well! :)

This font inspired by classical fraktur who made in the middle of 19th century which featured strong contrast and artistic lines. The font is well-suited for headlines, advertising or artistic purpose. But with your creative idea you can use this font to make your project outstanding and elegance.

Hello Smoothy - brush script with attitude! This font is the perfect mix between freshy and serious. Urban, modern, handwritten, sign painting inspired, Smoothy is perfect for various occasions. Wedding invitations, T-shirts or cards, Instagram posts, is very flexible. Ligatures and stylistic alternates makes this font even more "human".

Nightfate is a unique display font with a graffiti-like appearance. Use this font for any crafting project, apparel design, logotype, advertising, wall decoration, and pretty much anything that requires a personalized look. Take your designs to the next level with this stunning font! have a nice day.

Hoodie & Sweater is a bold handwritten sans serif font. A new fresh handmade font with smooth edges. This font is support multi language. Available in OTF file. This font will perfect for many different project ex: quotes, logo, blog header, poster, branding, fashion, apparel, letter, invitation, stationery, etc….

A caps-only typeface with a modern twist. When the joy and corpulence of the mango fruit meet the gothic aesthetics, Mango Grotesque is born. In this territory, fun and creepy are mixed. Just like a tropical beach in an expressionist film. Cause it's a bittersweet symphony this life...

Spective is a unique and stylish Display serif font that is absolutely perfect for editorial headlines. Her natural, bold and slender figure is perfect for posters, t-shirts, and magazine and movie covers. This calm and bold typeface is a content creator's best friend. Hope you enjoy this font!

Luxart is a modern Serif Decorative font inspired by the 1920's, Art Deco and Gatsby styles. This font looks luxury, stylish, elegant and neat. This font is great for logo branding & invitations, photography, quotes, wedding design, business cards, posters, watermark, holiday cards, special events and much more.

Gothic is a basic sans serif with thick strokes and minimal contrast. Designs of this nature first appeared in wood type catalogs around the 1840s, and proved extremely popular in advertising and broadside printing. This version is based on a wood type design manufactured by Hamilton Manufacturing Company.

This font is not a historical one, in spite of the fact that it was inspired by the Cancellaresca pattern (look at 1491 Cancellaresca and 1610 Cancellaresca). We have created this one as a fantasy script for a decorative use, like for invitation, greetings, menus, posters and so on...

This is a "Grunge" style font that looks as if it was overexposed on film. It is funky yet still very readable. It is best used in sizes over 12 points but really looks cool when used over 16 points. This is a favorite for use in video graphics.

Vørringfossen is a elegant display serif typeface. This elegant typeface features custom ligatures and alternate characters that will help you create beautiful work .Add a sophisticated style to your designs with Vørringfossen. This font is perfect for logos, posters, web design, graphic quotes, album covers, branding, and more.

Hello Everyone, introduce our new product Demon Say Hi is Rebel Typeface Font with a natural feel. This handmade font will make your design has a beautiful natural touch for each details. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the magical glyphs with ease!

A typeface named, simply, Geometric, from the 1885 Cleveland Type Foundry specimen book, has been beefed up a bit and softened with round serifs to create this everything-old-is-new-again gem. Both versions of this font include the complete Latin 1252 and Central European 1250 character sets.