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Behind the Typeface: The Rise and Fall of Cooper Black

Posted by Ampersand | January 15th, 2004

This nifty flash movie, a well-done parody of “Behind the Music” tracing the career of a font, is a lot more interesting than you’re probably imagining.

From the movie, I wandered onto Mastication is Normal, which (at least in the parts I read) consists mostly of reviews of book-cover designs. Again, nifty.

Via Wanton Deconstruction.

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5 Responses to “Behind the Typeface: The Rise and Fall of Cooper Black”

  1. dch Writes:
    January 15th, 2004 at 12:53 pm

    Well, I thought it was fun. But then I’m a geek. (Geek of all trades, with a very small subspecialization in fonts, which doesn’t even show up in the Geek Code.)

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  2. RA Writes:
    January 16th, 2004 at 11:16 am

    Thanks for posting this. My family was in the graphic arts for three generations (broken with me, sad to say). My dad did a degree in Printing Management in the 1950s. I have one of his textbooks on fonts, they all have really fascinating histories. I sent him the link and he found the documentary “delightful.”

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  3. Hestia Writes:
    January 16th, 2004 at 2:09 pm

    Novelist Aimee Bender writes about the lives of fonts. You can read a couple of them here:

    http://www.daidala.com/06oct2003.html

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  4. Elayne Riggs Writes:
    January 16th, 2004 at 7:46 pm

    Bloody brilliant. This is my Silly Site o’ the Day for tomorrow…

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  5. ScooterD Writes:
    January 19th, 2004 at 8:59 am

    Hey Amp,
    Very kind of you, etc., to add me to your blog roll. Especially since I post approximately never. But anyway.

    Cheers!
    -s

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