Breaking Bad Font

During 2008-2013, an American neo-western crime drama named Breaking Bad stirred the whole world. With its immense popularity, the font that was mostly used in the series logo also came to light. Today’s write-up will cover the Breaking Bad font, which is originally the Cooper BT Medium font.  

The Cooper BT Medium font actually belongs to the Cooper Black font family. Oswald Bruce Cooper designed the Cooper Black typeface and released it in 1921 under the Barnhart Brothers and Spindler font foundry. Later, another font foundry named Bitstream expanded the original Cooper Black with variants. 

There is an interesting thing regarding the tv show’s logo. In the logo, the first two letters of the two words (‘Br’ from Breaking and ‘Ba’ from Bad) are written in the style of a chemistry periodic table. 

If you look closely, there are two numbers in each cubes, Br with 35 and Ba with 56. Scientifically, these two represent Bromine and Barium with their atomic numbers. Interestingly, these numbers represent the ages of the two main characters of the show, at the end of the series. 

And, this font comes with 139 unique glyphs and only one style, that is regular. It features uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, special characters, and supports up to 33 languages.  

Alternative Fonts to Breaking Bad Font

• Heart Breaking Bad font – This font is the most similar to the font we are talking about. Andrew McCluskey from the Chequered Ink font foundry designed this font after being inspired by the Breaking Bad font. It is free for both personal and commercial uses.
• AveriaSerif Regular font – This Dan Sayers font is free for both personal and commercial uses. It features uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers and special characters.
• CF Peterson Personal Regular font – Steve Cloutier designed this font and CloutierFontes released this font in 2016. It is free for personal use only. Like the Cooper BT Medium font, it also has round edges.
• Treza font – This font family includes different font weights. In medium, bold, and black weights, the font looks like the Breaking Bad. Benjamin Gomez designed this font and Die Gestalte published this font in 2010.
• Better Call Saul – This font is from Better Call Saul TV show. It’s a prequel to Breaking Bad and tells the story of James McGill becoming Saul Goodman.

Common Uses

Due to its round edges and bold strokes, the Breaking Bad/Cooper BT Medium font is suitable for a wide variety of designs. Keep in mind that this typeface is display-based, it means you cannot use it as a random or body text. In your text design if there is a space for bold design, you can use the Breaking Bad typeface there. 

Here is a list of design fields for the Breaking Bad font – 

• Advertisements
• Banner designs
• Billboard designs
• Book covers
• Card designs
• Certificates
• Hats
• Headlines
• Hoarding layouts
• Label designs
• Logos
• Magazine covers
• Pants
• Periodic table designs
• Postcard designs
• Poster designs
• PowerPoint presentations
• Product titles
• Product packaging designs
• Shield designs
• Social media designs
• Titles
• T-shirts
• Website designs

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Pairings

Any lean, straight font goes well with this font. If you want to add a stylish touch to your text, you can pair the Breaking Bad typeface with any italic typeface. A calligraphic font is also a good choice to pair with the BB font, but make sure the partner font is not too stylish. 

Supported Languages

The Breaking Bad/Cooper BT Medium font supports up to 33 languages. Also, the font features basic and extended Latin characters.  

Platforms

Surprisingly, the Breaking Bad font is not only usable on devices but also works on various design software. You can apply this font in Adobe Photoshop, Canva, and other graphic design software. Besides, this font supports Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android devices.  

License

Though this font can make your designs an eye-turner, unfortunately, you cannot use it as you wish. It means this font is limited to personal use only. For an intended use of commercial purposes, please buy the font’s license or ask for the font designer’s permission. 

Download Link

Click here to download the Breaking Bad font for free. 

Breaking Bad font At A Glance

Font name	Breaking Bad (originally Cooper BT Medium)
Font family	Serif
Designed by	Oswald Bruce Cooper
Released by	Bitstream
Platforms	Adobe Photoshop, Canva, Android, iOS, Windows, Mac
Glyph count	132
Font weight	1
Font style	Regular
File type	OTF, TTF
Supported languages	33
Similar/alternative fonts	4
License	Free for personal use only

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