Commercial · Serif · Mark Simonson Studio
Bookmania
Bookmania is a licensed font from Mark Simonson Studio: $35.99, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 3 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. Bookmania is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Mark Simonson
- Released
- 2011
- Styles
- 10
- Classification
- Serif
- Price
- $35.99 (per style; Bookmania Family, 10 styles, $237.49) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Revival combining 1901 Bookman Oldstyle with the swash exuberance of 1960s Bookmans, with over 680 swash characters and a sloped roman italic; five weights with italics.
Free alternatives to Bookmania
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Bookmania is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Sorts Mill Goudy webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Sorts Mill Goudy.
same classification
An old-style serif of the same early-twentieth-century American flavour.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Rokkitt webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Rokkitt.
same classification
A slab-leaning serif whose sturdy forms recall Bookman’s weight.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Kreon webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Kreon.
same classification
A slab serif with rounded, friendly forms.
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