![]() There you have the country lover shaking hands with the rock and roll enthusiast. And there you have the bridge between groovy and all-American. Cooper’s big fat hippy idea, cowboy it with heavy slabs, give it true italics, then swash away at both for beautiful mixture. We think it’s simply marvelous and quite ideal for communicating special great American times and ideas. It is strange that the font designers of the 1980s and 1990s never found the attraction of such a concept. ![]() The idea for Jackpot came from a photo type called Cooper Playbill, which as the name implies was simply a westernized version of Cooper Black. It is however, as far as we can tell, unique to digital type. It was quite common, but hardly ever used, in film type in the 1960s and 1970s. ![]() What happens when you mix a groovy hippy font idea (like Canada Type’s Janice for instance) with a Western concept such as Playbill? You end up with a groovy hippy western font, of course! ![]()
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