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title: "Typefaces designed in the 1920s"
description: "3 typefaces first cut in the 1920s, who drew each one, and what a design using it reads as today. Plus what came before and after."
url: https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/1920s/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Typefaces designed in the 1920s

3 typefaces first released in the 1920s, in order.

| Typeface | Year | Designer | Kind | What it signals now |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cooper Black | 1922 | Oswald Bruce Cooper | Display | The 1970s, unmistakably. Soft, heavy, friendly, slightly stoned. |
| Futura | 1927 | Paul Renner | Sans-serif | Bauhaus modernism, and then anything wanting to look confident and geometric. |
| Gill Sans | 1928 | Eric Gill | Sans-serif | Britain, mid-century. Railways, the BBC, Penguin paperbacks. |

- [Cooper Black](https://atoneplace.net/font/cooper-black/) — Oswald Bruce Cooper, 1922
- [Futura](https://atoneplace.net/font/futura/) — Paul Renner, 1927
- [Gill Sans](https://atoneplace.net/font/gill-sans/) — Eric Gill, 1928

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- [Typefaces from the 1780s](https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/1780s/)
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- [Typefaces from the 1840s](https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/1840s/)
- [Typefaces from the 1890s](https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/1890s/)
- [Typefaces from the 1900s](https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/1900s/)
- [Typefaces from the 1910s](https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/1910s/)
- [Typefaces from the 1930s](https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/1930s/)
- [Typefaces from the 1950s](https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/1950s/)
- [Typefaces from the 1960s](https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/1960s/)
- [Typefaces from the 1970s](https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/1970s/)
- [Typefaces from the 1980s](https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/1980s/)
- [Typefaces from the 1990s](https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/1990s/)
- [Typefaces from the 2000s](https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/2000s/)
- [Typefaces from the 2010s](https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/2010s/)
- [Typefaces from the 2020s](https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/2020s/)