What is the Baskerville font?

John Baskerville spared no effort to create the ultimate typographic book. He prepared deep black inks and smoothed paper to show to full effect the letters that he had John Handy cut from his own brilliant designs, based on a lifetime of calligraphy and stonecutting. Punches and matrices survive at the Cambridge University Press. The present design is an accurate recutting, with particular attention to George W. Jones’ revision from the metal of Baskerville’s English (14pt) roman and italic in 1929 for Linotype & Machinery Ltd; Mergenthaler Linotype imported this design to the USA two years later.

Baskerville Font families

The Baskerville includes the following font families:

• Baskerville Std Roman
• Baskerville Std Italic
• Baskerville Std Bold
• Baskerville Std Bold Italic
• Baskerville WGL Roman
• Baskerville WGL Italic
• Baskerville WGL Bold
• Baskerville WGL Bold Italic

Baskerville Preview

Here is a preview of how Baskerville will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.