Baskerville 170/204, 23/17 by Marissa Downing
B askerville A Font’s History
Baskerville 23/17, 170/204, 12/12
Designed
J
by
(1706 – 1775) An English printer and type designer known for being a perfectionist.
ohn Baskerville
—John Baskerville, 1758 (Anatomy of a Typeface)
Baskerville Italic 12/15 Baskerville Bold 12/15
“Having been an early admirer of the beauty of letters, I became insensibly desirous of contributing to the perfection of them. I formed to myself ideas of greater accuracy than had yet appeared, and had endeavoured to produce a set of types according to what I conceived to be their true proportion.”
Baskerville Italic 23/21 Baskerville 120/204
Invented in
1757
Baskerville 23/17, 170/204, 36/43
Created in
E Birmingham,
ngland
Baskerville 23/28, 56/67, 12/15
Used for the
Canada wordmark which was established in 1980.
Baskerville 12/15, 120/207, 36/30 Baskerville SemiBold Italic 24/29
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Characterized by high contrast between thick and thin strokes.
ransitional
serif typeface
Baskerville 10/12, 70/84 Baskerville Italic 10/12
According to a study done by The New York Times, Baskerville is
1.5%
easier to read compared to Georgia, Comic Sans MS, Tmes New Roman and Helvetica.