Biblia Serif For Book Production Font Family Free Download

Biblia Serif For Book Production Font all started with a love for Minister. Biblia Serif For Book Production Font is a font designed by Carl Albert Fahrenwaldt in 1929. In the specimen booklet, there’s a scan from Linotype’s page many years ago.

They no longer carry the font. I’ve gone quite a ways from the original. It was dark and a bit heavy. But I loved the look and the readability.

This came to a head when I started my first book on all-digital printing written from 1994-1995 and published early in 1996.

I needed fonts to show the typography I was talking about. At that point old-style figures, true small caps, and discretionary ligatures were rare. More than that text fonts for book design had lining OR old-style figures, lowercase OR small caps—never both.

So, I designed the Diaconia family using the Greek word for the minister. It was fairly rough. I knew very little. I later redesigned and updated Diaconia into Bergsland Pro—released in 2004. It was still rough (though I impressed myself).

Now, with the 4-font Biblia Serif family 13 years later, I’ve cleaned up, made the fonts more consistent internally, added more functional OpenType features, and brought the fonts into the 21st century.

I used the 2017 set of features: small caps, small cap figures, old-style figures, fractions, lining figures, ligatures, and discretionary ligatures. These are fonts designed for book production and work well for text or heads.