The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Literata
A free alternative to Bookerly.
About Literata
Literata is TypeTogether's screen reading serif, commissioned in 2015 as the default face for Google Play Books and built with optical sizes tuned for extended text. The texture is slightly condensed and dependably dark, the serifs substantial, the rhythm steady — a warm, faintly calligraphic editorial serif engineered for people reading thousands of words at a time.
It does for Google Play Books exactly what New York does for Apple Books, which makes the swap unusually direct. It shares Tiempos's robust, screen-optimized body-text personality, and its dark newspaper-like color makes it a natural pick for article copy in the Imperial mold. Choose it when the job is long-form reading on screen rather than display: it is built for the paragraph, not the headline.
- Designer
- TypeTogether
- Released
- 2015
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
Literata is also a free alternative to…
- Bookerly → Commissioned by Google for Play Books as its own screen-reading serif, so it answers exactly the brief Bookerly answers for Kindle. Both pair old-style skeletons with firm serifs and generous spacing for small sizes. Literata is slightly lighter in colour and ships as a variable font with optical sizes.
- Imperial → Designed for long-form reading on screens, with the slightly condensed, dark, dependable texture of newspaper text; a natural pick for article body copy in the Imperial mold.
- New York → Commissioned as the reading face for Google Play Books — the exact same job New York does for Apple Books. Slightly warmer and more calligraphic, with excellent optical sizes for e-reading.
- Tiempos → A contemporary, slightly warm editorial serif engineered for comfortable extended reading (Google Play Books' default). Shares Tiempos's robust, screen-optimized body-text personality with substantial serifs and steady rhythm.
Display + body that work together
Pages that earn the read
Crisp, even strokes give the display its punch. Quiet serifs underneath stay readable across thousands of words — used together by editors at the kind of paper that still prints corrections.
The shape of a working week
Body type does the heavy lifting. Get it right and the reader never thinks about it; get it wrong and they feel it before they can name what is off.