Bookmania is a revival of Bookman Oldstyle (1901) and the Bookmans of the 1960s, but with all the features you would expect in a modern digital font family.
Bookmania contains five weights, each with their accompanying italic and small caps variant, and over 680 swash characters, alternates and ligatures.About the designer:
Mark Simonson started his career as a graphic designer and illustrator in 1976. Early on, he worked as an art director on a number of national magazines and other publications. He was head designer and art director for Minnesota Public Radio and an art director for its sister company, Rivertown Trading Company, designing over 200 audio packages, including many by Garrison Keillor. He frequently has done lettering as part of his design projects, and in 2000 he opened his own shop specializing in lettering and type design. He has been interested in type design since college and started licensing fonts to FontHaus in 1992. He now has more than 70 fonts on the market with many more to come. Type design is now the main focus of his activities.
Finding itself securely at the historical crossroads between lead type and the computer revolution, the Filmotype library, developed in the 1950s and 1960s, grew to encompass several hundred fonts available to designers, providing typeface designs on 2-inch filmstrips. Filmotype initially manufactured a manual phototype machine enabling headline and display typesetting utilizing a photochemical development process, helping to revolutionize the process of advertising layout and lettering.
In 2006, Stuart Sandler and Font Diner revived the Filmotype marque, intending to create high-quality digitizations of this historic collection, adapted for the modern age.
This package contains:
Bookmania Light, Bookmania Light Italic, Bookmania Regular, Bookmania Regular Italic, Bookmania Semibold, Bookmania Semibold Italic, Bookmania Bold, Bookmania Bold Italic, Bookmania Black and Bookmania Black Italic
Copyright © 2011 Mark Simonson.
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