Bookmania font

I love a good book flight. The idea is borrowed from wine: a tasting flight groups carefully chosen wines together, to better allow tasters to compare. I

Bookmania (2011) combines the sturdy elegance of the original Bookman Oldstyle (1901) with the swashy exuberance of the Bookmans of the 1960s. With 687 swash...

Happy Holidays! Here’s a gift for you all: New fonts on Typekit! We’ve added these to our full library, and they’re all available for web and desktop sync. Bookman Oldstyle, desig…

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Bookmania by Mark Simonson, is a family 10 fonts (five weights with italics), and literally hundreds of swashes. This is the most thorough and careful expansion of the classic Bookman swash that I know of. Amazing. marketplace.veer.com/font/Bookmania-UMT0002078

A version of Bookman with swashes, of unclear origin. According to Mark Simonson, who dubs it “Sixties Bookman”, it might have originated as a custom font created for ad campaign in the mid-sixties. From the specimen to Simonson’s Bookmania (pdf): Sixties Bookman was widely available by 1970 in film fonts, as well as rub-down and cut-out type. […] It’s closest to the larger sizes of ATF Bookman Oldstyle, but significantly bolder, with more contrast between the thicks and thins than other…

Frequently delving into the typographic past, Mark Simonson can masterfully translate the look and feel of vintage designs into a modern context. This time around, he has outdone himself with his gargantuan type family, Bookmania. This aptly named design was inspired by various versions of the Bookman typefaces released throughout...

Via Michael Bierut: Remembering the Bantam paperback of “The Greening of America” with its truly relentless deployment of Bookman Swash Italic. Quintessential 70s. RIP Charles Reich, 1928–2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/books/charles-reich-dead.html L