Book Antiqua font
Book Antiqua is an old-style serif from Monotype. Microsoft 365 includes it as a cloud font; elsewhere it is a commercial typeface. FontKind hasn’t measured it, so the free fonts below stand beside it by their own description and by class, not by measurement.
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Not measured against Book Antiqua: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Book Antiqua or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Book Antiqua
- First issued
- MonotypeSource: Microsoft: font list , Wikipedia: Palatino
- Class
- Old-style serifSource: Microsoft: font list , Wikipedia: Palatino
- Comes with
- Microsoft 365, as a cloud font: Book AntiquaSource: Microsoft: cloud fonts in Office
- Also
- Monotype drew it to the design of Hermann Zapf’s Palatino, which comes with Windows as Palatino Linotype.Source: Wikipedia: Palatino
Read by hand on 1 October 2026 from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), Microsoft’s and Apple’s lists of their fonts, Monotype’s list of its trademarks and the foundries’ and shops’ own pages. The references are linked beside each fact; a page that sells or hands out the font is not, so a fact read only there shows no link.
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Questions about Book Antiqua
Is Book Antiqua free?
Not to use anywhere you like. Microsoft 365 includes it as a cloud font, for Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Anywhere else it needs a licence from its foundry. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who made Book Antiqua?
Book Antiqua was issued by Monotype.
Can I use Book Antiqua in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, yes, with Microsoft 365: Book Antiqua is one of its cloud fonts, which Word downloads when you pick it. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Book Antiqua isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Crimson Text, Cormorant Garamond and EB Garamond are there, under More fonts. Canva publishes no list of its fonts: search its font menu, or, with Canva Pro, upload a font whose licence allows it.
What is the closest free alternative to Book Antiqua?
FontKind hasn’t measured Book Antiqua: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. Crimson Text, Cormorant Garamond and EB Garamond are old-style serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Book Antiqua.