Knights of Columbus Font

About Knights of Columbus Font

knights of columbus font

The Knights of Columbus is the world’s largest Catholic fraternal service organization. Founded by Father Michael J. McGivney in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1882, it was named in honor of the mariner Christopher Columbus.

The font used for the logo of the organization is Copperplate Gothic. The serif typeface was designed by Frederic Goudy and cut by American Type Founders circa 1901. These capital only fonts are basically monotone but have small nib serifs that give the feeling of the engravers tool.

If you want to know more about the meaning of KofC emblem, you can visit this page. For the Uncial font setting the header text on the page, it is Libra by Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos.

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Knights of Columbus

Download Copperplate Gothic Font

The Copperplate Gothic font identified above is not available for free, please follow the link above and purchase a font license to download and use the font. Meanwhile, you can take a look at our collection of fonts for cars, pop music and apparel as well as round-ups of new & fresh fonts around the web.

Copperplate Gothic Typeface in Use

In addition to Knights of Columbus, Copperplate Gothic typeface is also used in the following logos, movie posters or album covers, etc., including: Seabiscuit, GCB, Universal Orlando, North & South, Hyde Park on Hudson, Flyboys, Jane Got a Gun, Death Rally, New Beginning, The Piano, Cold Tracker, Legendary, Moleskine, Falling in Reverse, Lost in Space.

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