Literata is an old-style serif typeface commissioned by Google and designed by the independent type foundry TypeTogether. It was released in 2015 and is the default font family in Google Play Books, since version 3.4.5. The typeface 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. The designers went back to the old-style Roman and

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typefaces for inspiration. Literata initially included two different weights (regular and bold) and corresponding upright italicised variations (no real italic). Version 2.1 named ''Literata Book'' added two different weights (Medium and SemiBold) and

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, and made cap-height numerals the default. It includes support for full extended Latin, Polytonic Greek, and

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scripts. Compared to Play Books' former default font Droid Serif, Literata has a lower x-height and higher ascenders. On 7 December 2018, Literata was open-sourced under the

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and released on GitHub including the variable font version.

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Google Fonts

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GitHub repository
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