Cooper Black™ font
Cooper Black is an ultrabold serif made for display by Oswald Bruce Cooper, first issued by Barnhart Brothers & Spindler in 1922. Microsoft 365 includes it as a cloud font; elsewhere it is a paid typeface, sold by Linotype. FontKind hasn’t measured it, so the free fonts below stand beside it by their own description and by class, not by measurement.
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Caprasimo
Made to stand in for Cooper Black in documents · Google Fonts: Caprasimo
Find the font. Find its kind.Free for commercial useOFL
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Fraunces
Inspired by Windsor, Souvenir and the Cooper series · Google Fonts: Fraunces
Find the font. Find its kind.Free for commercial useOFL
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Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Gravitas One04by class
Free for commercial useApache 2.0
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Free for commercial useOFL
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Free for commercial useOFL
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Free for commercial useOFL
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Free for commercial useOFL
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Not measured against Cooper Black: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Cooper Black or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Cooper Black
- Designed by
- Oswald Bruce CooperSource: Wikipedia: Cooper Black
- First issued
- Barnhart Brothers & Spindler, 1922Source: Wikipedia: Cooper Black
- Class
- Ultrabold serif made for displaySource: Wikipedia: Cooper Black
- Comes with
- Microsoft 365, as a cloud font: Cooper BlackSource: Microsoft: cloud fonts in Office
- Sold by
- Linotype
- Trademark
- Cooper Black is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.Source: Monotype: trademarks
Read by hand on 1 October 2026 from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), Microsoft’s and Apple’s lists of their fonts, Monotype’s list of its trademarks and the foundries’ and shops’ own pages. The references are linked beside each fact; a page that sells or hands out the font is not, so a fact read only there shows no link.
Cooper Black™ is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation. FontKind is not affiliated with The Monotype Corporation, and this page is an independent reference.
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Questions about Cooper Black
Is Cooper Black free?
Not to use anywhere you like. Microsoft 365 includes it as a cloud font, for Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Anywhere else it needs a licence, sold by Linotype. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Cooper Black?
Cooper Black was designed by Oswald Bruce Cooper, and first issued by Barnhart Brothers & Spindler in 1922.
Can I use Cooper Black in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, yes, with Microsoft 365: Cooper Black is one of its cloud fonts, which Word downloads when you pick it. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Cooper Black isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Caprasimo, Fraunces and Gravitas One are there, under More fonts. Canva publishes no list of its fonts: search its font menu, or, with Canva Pro, upload a font whose licence allows it.
What is the closest free alternative to Cooper Black?
FontKind hasn’t measured Cooper Black: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. The free fonts whose own descriptions name it, or its model, are Caprasimo and Fraunces. Beside them, Gravitas One, Ultra and Asset are fat-face serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Cooper Black.