Bookmania (2011) combines the sturdy elegance of the original Bookman Oldstyle (1901) with the swashy exuberance of the Bookmans of the 1960s. With over 680 swash characters, more than any previous Bookman, the possibilities are endless. The broad range of weights make it great for display use, but it also works well for text. Unlike some Bookman revivals, it retains the original classic sloped roman for the italic. Bookmania includes all the features you would expect in a modern digital font family.
Bookmania Fonts
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Bookmania Font Styles
A wisecracking jackalope on a freight vexed by Moz’s bequest.
A wisecracking jackalope on a freight vexed by Moz’s bequest.
A wisecracking jackalope on a freight vexed by Moz’s bequest.
A wisecracking jackalope on a freight vexed by Moz’s bequest.
A wisecracking jackalope on a freight vexed by Moz’s bequest.
A wisecracking jackalope on a freight vexed by Moz’s bequest.
A wisecracking jackalope on a freight vexed by Moz’s bequest.
A wisecracking jackalope on a freight vexed by Moz’s bequest.
A wisecracking jackalope on a freight vexed by Moz’s bequest.
A wisecracking jackalope on a freight vexed by Moz’s bequest.
Buy Bookmania
1. Select styles
| Bookmania Family 10 styles $269.99
Save 25% | |
|---|---|
| Light $35.99 | Light Italic $35.99 |
| Regular $35.99 | Regular Italic $35.99 |
| Semi Bold $35.99 | Semi Bold Italic $35.99 |
| Bold $35.99 | Bold Italic $35.99 |
| Black $35.99 | Black Italic $35.99 |
2. Select licenses
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About the Bookmania Font
Bookmania Features
- Five weights: Light, Regular, Semibold, Bold, and Black.
- Matching italics for all weights.
- Matching small caps for all weights.*
- Lining and old style figures (both proportional and tabular).*
- Full “f” ligature set (including many swash variants).*
- 35 optional (discretionary) ligatures.*
- Over 680 swash characters.*
- Alternate characters, such as a Jenson-style lowercase e and unicase caps.*
- Automatic fractions.*
- Automatic ordinals.*
- Extended language support for most Latin-based Western and Central European languages, including all the swash and alternate characters.
*Requires an application with support for OpenType advanced typography, such as Adobe Creative Suite and QuarkXPress. Check your application’s user guide. Important: Many of the swash characters are only accessible in apps that have a “glyph palette” or “character palette”. Check your application’s user guide. OpenType advanced typography is also supported by most modern web browsers through the use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
Specimens & User Guides
Bookmania Specimen: Complete information with text and display specimens. 24 pages. 1 MB PDF.
The Bookmania Cookbook: User guide showing how to use and access the hundreds of swash and alternate characters in Bookmania. 20 pages. 542 KB PDF.
Additional Information
Bookmania – Our Favorite Typefaces of 2011 Review of Bookmania on Typographica.
Bookmania on “Fonts In Use” “Fonts In Use” is a collaborative website where interesting or notable examples of fonts in use are shared.