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Oswald Bruce Cooper, American type designer, lettering artist, graphic designer, and educator (died 1940)
Oswald Bruce Cooper was an American type designer, lettering artist, graphic designer, and teacher of these trades. He is best known as the designer and namesake of the Cooper Black typeface. Cooper Black (1922), this became ATF's second-best-selling type, after Copperplate Gothic.
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Oswald Bruce Cooper was born in 1879. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.
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| Measure | 1879 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 45.9M | 341 million |
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