Bookish FONT Download

Bookish was designed by David Bergsland and published by Hackberry Font Foundry. Bookish contains 4 styles and family package options.  

This all started with a love for Jenson.

I know there're hundreds of variations on that theme. But, that is where I began, several years ago. How far it came, as usual as I wandered through the vagaries of font design, is not unusual. If you've read any of my font design books, you know my design processes are quite loose and spontaneous.

I wanted the general feel of a favorite old font, but softer, easier, and more comfortable. I built these on the same vertical metrics as my Librum Publishing Group. However, this family is not part of that group. I used the metrics because that shows my current taste in fonts.

This family does work with the Librum group-but to be honest, I haven't experimented enough to come up with a good companion. I suspect I'll need to make another companion family. I may need make a non-modulated bold version also. But, that remains to be seen. I'm pleased with this.

Font Family:
· Bookish
· Bookish Italic
· Bookish Bold
· Bookish Bold Italic


File Size: 8.71 MB

Tags: discretionary ligatures, display, fractions, large x-height, oldstyle figures, ordinals, readable, serif, slab, small cap figures, small caps, text

Release date: November 4, 2016

You can use this font for:
- Design projects: create images or vector artwork, including logos
- Website publishing: create a Web Project to add any font from our service to your website
- PDFs: embed fonts in PDFs for viewing and printing
- Video and broadcast: use fonts to create in-house or commercial video content and more
- The fonts are designed to work on MacOS (Apple) and Windows (Microsoft)

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