Bookman Old Style Font Free Download

About The Font

Bookman Old Style Font is a serif typeface font. It was designed by Ong Chong Wah. But the origin of Bookman Old Style is called Oldstyle Antique and was designed by A. C. Phemister circa 1858 for the Miller and Richard foundry in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was customized by many American foundries according to their needs. That’s why it’s called Bookman.

It has four basic styles: Bookman Old Style, Bookman Old Style Bold, Bookman Old Style Bold Italic, and Bookman Old Style Italic. Bookman Old Style is based on earlier Lanston Monotype and ATF models. The italic styles have been following the old-style antique italics of Miller and Richard since the beginning.

Usage

It was popular in the phototypesetting period when people would use a clear but stylish font in their books. You can use it heavily for writing purposes. You can make any type of document or report with it. The italic font is highly appreciated for children’s books and poetry books. 

You can use it in presentations, posters, banners, logos, brochures, brands, and calendars. It can also be used in booklets, leaflets, billboards, business cards, diaries, and so on. It is suitable both for print and digital media. So you can use it in magazines and newspapers as well as on blogs and websites.

It has been included in Microsoft Office products since version 4.3,\1

Font information

Name	Bookman Old Style Font
Style	Serif
Designer	Ong Chong Wah
File Format	OTF, TTF
Font Licence	Commercial
Type	Commercial

License Information

Bookman Old Style is a commercial font. Using it in any project, personal or business, needs a licence.

Where to find it

Bookman Old Style is a commercial typeface, and Microsoft’s typography site has a page on the family and its history. The image above shows its name set in the font.

Font Family

Bookman Old Style has a total of eight styles with four basic.

• BOOKMAN OLD STYLE BOLD
• BOOKMAN OLD STYLE BOLD ITALIC
• BOOKMAN OLD STYLE ITALIC
• BOOKMAN OLD STYLE REGULAR
• BOOKMAN BOLD SWASH
• BOOKMAN OLD STYLE
• BOOKMAN OLD STYLE CYR
• BOOKMAN OLD STYLE STD

Similar to Bookman Old Style Font

Bookman Old Style has a lot of similar fonts. Here we added some of the closest fonts.

• TC Bookman
• ITC Stone Serif
• Swift
• Birka
• Octava
• EF Magna

Bookman Old Style Font Pairing

Font pairings have no straightforward rules. It depends upon your projects, choices, and design concepts. However, you can try the following combinations. 

• Twentieth Century
• Ames Roman
• Columbia Sans
• Suisse Int’l
• Emigre
• Monotype
• FontFont
• Production Type
• Fort Foundry
• Nimbus Sans
• Gotham
• Clarendon
• Futura

Bookman Old Style Language Support

Bookman Old Style font supports a lot of languages. Here are all included.

English, Low Saxon, Luxembourgian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay (Latinized), Maltese, Northern Sotho (Pedi), Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Ossetian, Pangasinan, Interglossa (Glosa), Interlingua, Irish (Gaelic), Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jèrriais, Kabardian, Kalmyk (Cyrillic), Karachay (Cyrillic), Kashubian, Kazakh (Cyrillic), Khakas, Khalkha, Khanty, Kildin Sami, Komi-Permyak, Kurdish, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kyrgyz (Cyrillic), Ladin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard,Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Romanian, Romansh (Rumantsch), Rotokas, Russian, Rusyn, Sami (Inari), Sami (Lule), Sami (Northern), Samoan, Sardinian (Sardu), Scots (Gaelic), Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Seychellois Creole (Seselwa), Shona, Sicilian, Slovak, Abkhaz, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Aragonese, Arapaho, Aromanian, Arrernte, Asturian, Aymara, Azerbaijani (Cyrillic), Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Belarusian (Lacinka), Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Buryat (Cyrillic), Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chechen, Cheyenne, Chichewa (Nyanja), Chuvash, Cimbrian, Corsican, Croatian, Cyrillic, Czech, Danish, Dungan, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Evenki (Cyrillic), Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, French, French Creole (Saint Lucia), Frisian, Friulian, Galician, Genoese, German, Gilbertese (Kiribati), Manx, Maori, Meadow Mari, Megleno-Romanian, Míkmaq, Mohawk, Moldovan, Nahuatl, Nenets, Norfolk/Pitcairnese, Slovenian (Slovene), Somali, Southern Ndebele, Southern Sotho (Sesotho), Spanish, Swahili, Swati/Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog (Filipino/Pilipino), Tahitian, Tajik, Tatar (Cyrillic), Tausug, Tetum (Tetun), Tok Pisin, Tongan (Faka-Tonga), Tswana, Turkmen, Turkmen (Cyrillic), Turkmen (Latinized), Tuvaluan, Tuvin, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Ulithian, Uyghur (Cyrillic), Uyghur (Latinized), Uzbek (Cyrillic), Veps, Vietnamese, Volapük, Votic (Cyrillic), Votic (Latinized), Walloon, Warlpiri, Welsh, Xhosa, Yakut/Sakha, Yapese, Zulu.

FAQs

What type of font Is Bookman Old Style?

Ans: Bookman Old Style Font is a serif typeface font. It was designed by Ong Chong Wah.

Can I use Bookman Old Style Font on My Website?

Ans: Yes, you can. You can use it on the website both for designing and titling. It will increase the beauty of your website.

Is Bookman Old Style a free font?

Ans: No. Bookman Old Style is a commercial font, and it needs a licence for personal and commercial projects alike.

Can I download and use Bookman Old Style font on My Pc and Mac?

Ans: We do not host the file here. Once you have a licensed copy, you can install it on both PC and Mac.

Can I use Bookman Old Style for my logo?

Ans: Yes, you can make static, animated, and 3D logos with it.

How to Install Bookman Old Style Font in Adobe, Ms. Word, Mac, or PC?

Ans: Please check the installation process of the Bookman Old Style font for Adobe, MS Word, Mac, and PC.

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