Libre Baskerville
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Free ITC New Baskerville alternatives
ITC's 1978 redrawing, which is what most people have actually set when they have set Baskerville.
Why people look for a ITC New Baskerville alternative
ITC New Baskerville is the cutting most often specified in editorial work, with a larger lowercase than the original and more contrast. It is licensed per weight, which for a publication needing roman, italic and bold across print and web becomes a real number.
What a ITC New Baskerville substitute has to get right
A larger x-height and a tighter fit than the eighteenth-century original, which matters because it is the version body text was laid out in.
The one in this archive
One entry, because one is the honest answer. A face is listed here only if the substitution would survive a designer looking at both.
ITC New Baskerville and its free alternatives, at a glance
- How you get it
- Bought from a foundry under a commercial licence
- Pass it on, embed it or self-host it
- Only as the licence you bought allows
- On a website
- Usually a separate web licence on top
ITC New Baskerville
| Property | Libre Baskerville |
|---|---|
| Licence | OFL-1.1 — free, commercial use allowed |
| Weights | 400, 500, 600, 700 |
| Variable | Yes |
| Italic | Yes |
| Türkçe | Yes |
| Other alphabets | Latin only |
| Glyphs | 861 |
| Web font | 51 KB Latin cut |
Questions
- What is the best free alternative to ITC New Baskerville?
- Libre Baskerville — it is the closest match in this archive, and the page above says which shapes the substitution turns on. It is the only one listed, because one honest match is a better answer than a longer list of near misses.
- Are these ITC New Baskerville alternatives free for commercial use?
- Yes. Every font on this site is under a licence that permits commercial use with no fee and no attribution requirement, mostly the SIL Open Font License. That covers paid client work, products you sell, self-hosting on a website, and embedding in an application. The licence file is inside every download.
- Can I use a ITC New Baskerville alternative in a logo?
- Yes. An open font licence covers the font software rather than the shapes you set with it, so a logo made with one of these can be trademarked like any other. What you cannot do is claim rights over the typeface itself.
- Will a ITC New Baskerville substitute keep my layout the same?
- Only if it is metrically compatible — drawn so every character occupies the same width as the original, which makes a document reflow identically. Very few faces are, and where one is, this site says so on its page. Everything else will look similar and set differently, so a layout built to the original's widths needs checking rather than assuming.