Cooper Black had a lot in common with hip-hop from the beginning ... It was the same combination of fonts used on his debut mixtape Nostalgia, Ultra. It was only a matter of time before the ...

If you've seen custom hand lettering on a hip-hop album cover ... lettering is a cool way to add personality instead of using a font," Nguyen says. Instead of slapping a regular font on an ...

new hip-hop ... this font in particular — and they began to appropriate it for their own purposes due to Heat pressing the letters being easy, affordable and adaptable.” Lettering expert ...