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Cooper Hilite is a version of Cooper Black originally designed by painting white relief impressions into a printed proof of Cooper Black. It has been digitized by ParaType and
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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
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period of the 1960s and 1970s, a period of explosion in the production of display faces. These included "Ziptop Cooper Black" from
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