The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Literata
A free alternative to Tiempos.
About Literata
- Designer
- TypeTogether
- Released
- 2015
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
- Featured on
- 3 paid font pages
Literata is also a free alternative to…
- 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.
- 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.
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.