Robur
Robur is a sans-serif typeface published by Canada Type in 1931, designed by Patrick Griffin. It comes in 3 weights, from Bold to Black, with italics. It is one of 176 typefaces from Canada Type in the Type.lol catalog, 84 of them sans-serif.
From the foundry
Robur I t shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that these letter shapes are familiar. They have the unmistakable colour and weight of Cooper Black, Oswald Cooper’s most famous typeface from 1921. What should be a surprise is that these letters are actually from George Auriol’s Robur Noir, published in France circa 1909 by the Peignot foundry as a bolder, solid counterpart to its popular Auriol typeface (1901). This face precedes Cooper Black by a dozen of years and a whole Great War. Cooper Black h
Published by Canada Type
Typeface on the foundry website
- Classification
- sans
- Weights
- Bold, Heavy, Black
- Released
- 1931