Bookman Old Style font family

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03/30/2022

Overview

The origins of Bookman Old Style lie in the typeface called Oldstyle Antique, designed by A C Phemister circa 1858 for the Miller and Richard foundry in Edinburgh, Scotland. Many American foundries made versions of this type which eventually became known as Bookman. Monotype Bookman Old Style roman is based on earlier Lanston Monotype and ATF models. The italic has been re drawn following the style of the Oldstyle Antique italics of Miller and Richard. Although called 'Old Style', the near vertical stress of the face puts it into the transitional category. A legible and robust text face.

	Description
File name	Bookos.ttf Bookosb.ttf Bookosbi.ttf Bookosi.ttf
Styles & Weights	Bookman Old Style Bookman Old Style Bold Bookman Old Style Bold Italic Bookman Old Style Italic
Designers	Ong Chong Wah
Copyright	Digitized data copyright The Monotype Corporation 1991-1995. All rights reserved. Bookman Old Style? is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation which may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
Font vendor	N/A
Script Tags	N/A
Code pages	1252 Latin 1 1250 Latin 2: Eastern Europe 1251 Cyrillic 1253 Greek 1254 Turkish 1257 Windows Baltic Mac Roman Macintosh Character Set (US Roman) 869 IBM Greek 866 MS-DOS Russian 865 MS-DOS Nordic 863 MS-DOS Canadian French 861 MS-DOS Icelandic 860 MS-DOS Portuguese 857 IBM Turkish 855 IBM Cyrillic; primarily Russian 852 Latin 2 775 MS-DOS Baltic 737 Greek; former 437 G 850 WE/Latin 1 437 US
Fixed pitch	False

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