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Baskervville

A free alternative to Baskerville

ANRT · ANRT · 2019 · OFL-1.1 · Variable

The two v's are not a typo — the French spelling of the punchcutter's name was Baskervville, and ANRT kept it to mark this as a revival of the version held by the Imprimerie Nationale rather than of the English original. It is closer to the eighteenth century than the Baskervilles most people know: sharper, less regularised, with an italic that still behaves like a separate alphabet. Weight runs 400 to 700, which is as far as a face this specific should be pushed.

Variable · 134 KB · 2 files

All weights in one file, for Figma, Illustrator, InDesign and the web.

Static · 327 KB · 8 files

One file per weight, works everywhere including older Word and Photoshop.

The license file is inside both zips.

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Alphabets

Style

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Weight — 400

Specification

Designer
ANRT
Foundry
ANRT
Released
2019
Category
Serif
Alternative to
Baskerville
License
OFL-1.1
Commercial use
Allowed
Good for
Body text, Long-form reading, Editorial, Book covers
Weights
400, 500, 600, 700
Styles
Normal, Italic
Variable
Yes
Glyphs
707
Languages
Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe
Download size
134 KB
Source
github.com/google/fonts/tree/main/ofl/baskervville

Size ladder

96

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

64

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

40

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

24

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

16

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

12

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

Baskervville character map

Uppercase

  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • X
  • Y
  • Z

Lowercase

  • a
  • b
  • c
  • d
  • e
  • f
  • g
  • h
  • i
  • j
  • k
  • l
  • m
  • n
  • o
  • p
  • q
  • r
  • s
  • t
  • u
  • v
  • w
  • x
  • y
  • z

Numerals

  • 0
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9

Punctuation & symbols

  • .
  • ,
  • :
  • ;
  • !
  • ?
  • '
  • "
  • ‘
  • ’
  • “
  • ”
  • (
  • )
  • [
  • ]
  • {
  • }
  • /
  • \
  • |
  • -
  • –
  • —
  • _
  • @
  • #
  • $
  • %
  • &
  • *
  • +
  • =
  • <
  • >
  • ~
  • ^
  • `
  • €
  • £
  • ¥
  • ©
  • ®
  • °
  • §
  • †
  • •
  • …

Use Baskervville on the web

Self-hosted

You serve the file yourself. Nothing depends on this site staying up, and you get the whole character set — all Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe.

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Baskervville';
  /* The download contains .ttf files. Put yours wherever you serve static
     files from and point this at it. Converting to .woff2 first cuts the
     size by roughly 60% and every current browser supports it. */
  src: url('/fonts/baskervville.woff2') format('woff2');
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: 'Baskervville', serif;
}

Hosted by us

One line, nothing to upload. Put this in your <head>:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://thatsmyfont.com">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://thatsmyfont.com/fontfiles/baskervville.css">

Then use it in your CSS:

body {
  font-family: 'Baskervville', serif;
}

One thing to know: the file we host is cut down to Latin characters so pages load quickly. Baskervville also covers Türkçe, and for those you need the download and the self-hosted route.

Baskervville license

OFL-1.1

You may use, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial work. You may not sell the font file on its own, and any modified version must be released under the same license and under a different name.

Commercial use allowed

Designed by ANRT

Copyright 2018 The Baskervville Project Authors (https://github.com/anrt-type/ANRT-Baskervville)

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The license file is included inside the download.

Questions

Is Baskervville free for commercial use?
Yes. Baskervville is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use with no fee and no attribution requirement. You can use it in client work, in products you sell, on the web and in print. The one thing you may not do is sell the font file on its own. The licence is inside the download.
Can I use Baskervville in a logo?
Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Baskervville belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to ANRT. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
How do I install Baskervville?
Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 2 font files inside and open them, then press Install Font. On Windows, select them, right-click and choose Install. Restart any application that was already open before it will show up. Baskervville is a variable font: those files carry all 4 weights at once. Some older software — Word, Canva, and Photoshop before 2018 — reads only the one weight the file defaults to, and for Baskervville that is the regular weight. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 8 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.
Does Baskervville support Turkish?
Yes. Baskervville includes the characters Türkçe needs that plain Latin does not — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ, ş, ü, ö and ç in both cases. This was checked against the font file itself, not assumed from the fact that it covers Latin.
What languages does Baskervville support?
Yes. Baskervville covers Latin, Latin Extended and Turkish, across 707 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.

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