![]() ![]() It also features the tiniest of serifs, and is recognizably older in its design, which makes it refined and dignified. The font is in all caps and features simple letter forms, which, in my opinion, gives it a sturdiness and a no-nonsense appeal. They might be familiar to you, as they have made their way onto fancy business cards, bank windows, and even the Universal Studios logo. Designed by Frederic Goudy in 1902, these letters are an American classic. To kick this project off, I made a version of the classic font Copperplate Gothic. These are not original designs, but recreations from the predigital era. These will be typefaces that were designed a hundred years or so ago and are therefore public domain, but for which no free digital version exists. My goal is to make a series of digitizations of historical typefaces that feel within the cowboy genre, and release them for free to the collective. Thus, I am starting the Cowboy Font Revival project. It is only natural, then, to combine these two passions of mine and produce a series of cowboy fonts for the collective. When I’m not contributing to the Cowboy Collective, I’m making fonts over at my foundry, indestructible type*. Truth be told, I have a bit of an obsession with typography. ABOUT ARCHIVES COWBOYS CONTRIBUTE Copperplate CC Font OWEN EARL 22 June 2020Ī Historical revival of Copperplate Gothic by indestructible type* ![]()
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