Fanwood Text is a revival of Fairfield, the typeface first published in 1940 and designed by Rudolph Ruzicka, a famous Czech-American type designer. The roman and italic are slightly darker and reduced in contrast than the original; this was tailored for increased readability on the Amazon Kindle 3 e-book reader hardware.

To learn more, see bitbucket.org/sortsmill/sortsmill-fonts and the theleagueofmoveabletype.com/fanwood