Industry: Design

Typeface Design for Bookman Recast

A 19th-century classic reworked for the 21st century

Bookman Recast is a 21st-century revival of a 19th-century classic, designed by Emanuela Conidi and Robert Pratley at Dalton Maag and released in 2025. The family comprises Regular and Italic styles, covering Latin script across more than 790 languages. Wide proportions and generous curves aim to serve both display and text settings.

Set in Bookman Recast

Insights

OpenType features include alternate glyphs for J and Q, case-sensitive forms, fractions, ordinals, subscript, superscript, and both tabular and proportional numeral sets.
Latin-script coverage extends to more than 790 languages, reflected in an extensive language list in the source.