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typefaces. It was intended to establish a unique visual identity for the Play Books app, suitable across a wide variety of screen sizes, resolutions, and rendering software.
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Literata initially included two different weights (regular and bold) and corresponding
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TypeTogether. It was released in 2015 and is the default font family in
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On 7 December 2018, Literata was open-sourced under the
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added two different weights (Medium and SemiBold) and
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scripts. Compared to Play Books' former default font
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Category
Serif
Designer(s)
Google
Foundry
License
SIL Open Font License
www.type-together.com/literata
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serif
typeface
Google
type foundry
Google Play Books
Scotch Roman
old-style
upright italicised
small caps
extended Latin
Polytonic Greek
Cyrillic
Droid Serif
x-height
ascenders
SIL Open Font License
GitHub
variable font
Bookerly
"Release 3.103"

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