Specimen book - Baskerville

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Transitional


The lowercase G has an open loop


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E W The uppercase E has long lower arm

The uppercase and lowercase W has no middle stroke

The uppercase C has top and bottom serifs

The uppercase A has high crossbar and pointed apex

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Baskerville ... the King of fonts Experimental typography is defined as the unconventional and more artistic approach to typeface selection. Francis Picabia was a Dada pioneer of this practice in the early twentieth Century. Ray Gun magazine in the 1990s. His work caused an uproar inapproach to typeface selection. The design community due to his abandonment of his standard practices in typeface selection, layout, and design.

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Regular 8/11


Baskerville's typeface was part of an ambitious project to create books the greatest possible quality. Baskerville was a industrialist, who had started his career as a writing master was (teacher of books calligraphy) and carver of gravestones, before the making a fortune as a manufacturer of varnished lacquer v gravestonesa time when books .

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Baskerville's typeface was part of an ambitious project to create books of the greatest possible quality. Baskerville was a wealthy industrialist, who had started his career as a writing was ( as a manufacturer of cal. Beatricteacher of calligraphy) and carver of gravestones, before making a fortune as a manufacturer the calligraphy of varnished lacquer goods. At a time when books in England were generally printed to a low. standard using typefaces .

Regular 9/11

Baskerville's typeface was part of an ambitious project to create books of the greatest possible quality. Baskerville was a wealthy industrialist, who had started his career as a writing master was (teacher of calligraphy) and carver of gravestones, before making a fortune as a manufacturer of cal. Beatrice Warde, Dreyfus and others have written that aspects of his design recalled his hand writing and common elements of the taught by the time which had been used in copperplate engraving but had lacquer goods.



The uppercase Q has swash-like tail


Regular 11/13

Regular 10/12

Baskerville's typeface was part of an ambitious project to create books of the greatest possible quality. Baskerville was a wealthy industrialist, who had started his career as a writing master was (teacher of calligraphy) carver of gravestones, before making a fortune varnished lacquer goods.

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Regular 12/14

Baskerville's typeface was part of an ambitious project to create books of the greatest possible were quality. Baskerville was a wealthy industrialist, who had started his career as a writing master teacher of calligraphy and carver, bef making a fortune as a manufacturer of varnish lacquer goods. Time when books in England.


Baskerville

Typography


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Styles Of

Baskerville A H O V

B I P W

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B I P W

C J Q X

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B I P W

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Regular

Regular Italic

Regular Old Face


The uppercase T has long arm

Bold

Medium

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C J Q X

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The letter has vertical or almost vertical stress in the bowls

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