Libre Baskerville
A redrawing of the 1941 American Type Founders Baskerville, reworked for screens with a taller x-height, wider counters and less contrast between thick and thin. Those changes cost it some of the elegance a printed Baskerville has and buy back legibility at sixteen pixels. It was built for body text, and body text is where it earns its keep.
See Libre Baskerville in a paragraphCompare with Domine and Baskervville
Libre Baskerville at a glance
- Commercial use
- Yes · OFL 1.1
- On a website
- Yes · WOFF2 here
- Variable
- Yes · 4 weights
- In a logo
- Yes
- Türkçe (ı İ ğ ş)
- Yes
- Italic
- Yes
Alphabets
Style
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
Specification
- Designer
- Impallari Type
- Foundry
- Impallari Type
- Released
- 2012
- Category
- Serif
- Alternative to
- Baskerville, ITC New Baskerville
- License
- OFL-1.1
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Good for
- Body text, Long-form articles, Blogs
- Weights
- 400, 500, 600, 700
- Styles
- Normal, Italic
- Variable
- Yes
- Glyphs
- 861
- Languages
- Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe
- Download size
- 166 KB
Libre Baskerville character map
Latin110
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
- .
- ,
- :
- ;
- !
- ?
- '
- "
- ‘
- ’
- “
- ”
- (
- )
- [
- ]
- {
- }
- /
- \
- |
- -
- –
- —
- _
- @
- #
- $
- %
- &
- *
- +
- =
- <
- >
- ~
- ^
- `
- €
- £
- ¥
- ©
- ®
- °
- §
- †
- •
- …
Latin Extended193
Western European
- À
- Á
- Â
- Ã
- Ä
- Å
- Æ
- Ç
- È
- É
- Ê
- Ë
- Ì
- Í
- Î
- Ï
- Ð
- Ñ
- Ò
- Ó
- Ô
- Õ
- Ö
- Ø
- Ù
- Ú
- Û
- Ü
- Ý
- Þ
- ß
- à
- á
- â
- ã
- ä
- å
- æ
- ç
- è
- é
- ê
- ë
- ì
- í
- î
- ï
- ð
- ñ
- ò
- ó
- ô
- õ
- ö
- ø
- ù
- ú
- û
- ü
- ý
- þ
- ÿ
Central and Eastern European
- Ā
- ā
- Ă
- ă
- Ą
- ą
- Ć
- ć
- Ĉ
- ĉ
- Ċ
- ċ
- Č
- č
- Ď
- ď
- Đ
- đ
- Ē
- ē
- Ĕ
- ĕ
- Ė
- ė
- Ę
- ę
- Ě
- ě
- Ĝ
- ĝ
- Ğ
- ğ
- Ġ
- ġ
- Ģ
- ģ
- Ĥ
- ĥ
- Ħ
- ħ
- Ĩ
- ĩ
- Ī
- ī
- Ĭ
- ĭ
- Į
- į
- İ
- ı
- IJ
- ij
- Ĵ
- ĵ
- Ķ
- ķ
- ĸ
- Ĺ
- ĺ
- Ļ
- ļ
- Ľ
- ľ
- Ŀ
- ŀ
- Ł
- ł
- Ń
- ń
- Ņ
- ņ
- Ň
- ň
- Ŋ
- ŋ
- Ō
- ō
- Ŏ
- ŏ
- Ő
- ő
- Œ
- œ
- Ŕ
- ŕ
- Ŗ
- ŗ
- Ř
- ř
- Ś
- ś
- Ŝ
- ŝ
- Ş
- ş
- Š
- š
- Ţ
- ţ
- Ť
- ť
- Ŧ
- ŧ
- Ũ
- ũ
- Ū
- ū
- Ŭ
- ŭ
- Ů
- ů
- Ű
- ű
- Ų
- ų
- Ŵ
- ŵ
- Ŷ
- ŷ
- Ÿ
- Ź
- ź
- Ż
- ż
- Ž
- ž
Romanian and other
- Ș
- ș
- Ț
- ț
- ƒ
Türkçe14
- Ç
- ç
- Ğ
- ğ
- I
- ı
- İ
- i
- Ö
- ö
- Ş
- ş
- Ü
- ü
Use Libre Baskerville on the web
Self-hosted
@font-face {
font-family: 'Libre Baskerville';
/* Take the WOFF2 button above, put libre-baskerville.woff2 wherever
you serve static files from, and point this at it. */
src: url('/fonts/libre-baskerville.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 400 700;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Libre Baskerville', serif;
}Hosted by us
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://thatsmyfont.com">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://thatsmyfont.com/fontfiles/libre-baskerville.css">body {
font-family: 'Libre Baskerville', serif;
}Questions
- Is Libre Baskerville free for commercial use?
- Yes. Libre Baskerville 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 Libre Baskerville in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Libre Baskerville belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Impallari Type. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Libre Baskerville?
- 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. Libre Baskerville 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 Libre Baskerville 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 Libre Baskerville support Turkish?
- Yes. Libre Baskerville 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 Libre Baskerville support?
- Libre Baskerville covers Latin, Latin Extended and Turkish, across 861 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.
- What weights does Libre Baskerville come in?
- Libre Baskerville comes in 4 weights: Regular (400), Medium (500), Semi Bold (600) and Bold (700). It is a variable font, so every one of them is in a single file and you can also set any weight in between.
- Is there a smaller, Latin-only version of Libre Baskerville?
- Yes — the "WOFF2 · Latin only" button on this page. It is 51 KB against 60 KB for the complete file, 15% smaller, with every weight the family has still in it. It covers Latin and Latin Extended, which is everything a page in English, Turkish or a western European language sets — Türkçe included, since ı, İ, ğ and ş all live in that range. Take the complete file instead if you set Cyrillic, Greek or any alphabet outside Latin.
- Where can I download Libre Baskerville as WOFF2?
- From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is libre-baskerville.woff2, and it is about 60 KB. It is the complete font repacked for the web rather than a cut-down copy: the same glyphs, the same spacing and the same hinting as the .ttf in the download, roughly 60% smaller. Every browser still receiving updates reads WOFF2, so it is the only web format most sites need. Google Fonts does not offer this file for download at all — it serves WOFF2 from its own servers and gives you .ttf if you ask for the family.
Libre Baskerville 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
- Taken unmodified from impallari/Libre-Baskerville
- The licence file is inside every zip — the site will not publish a download without one
- This page’s data last changed on 4 September 2026
Pairs well with Libre Baskerville
- Albert Sans
A sans to contrast with it — both are upright and even.
See the two side by side - Archivo
A sans to contrast with it — both have the upright, rational stress of their centuries.
See the two side by side
Cite this page
Libre Baskerville font: licence, alphabets and downloads. Thats My Font. https://thatsmyfont.com/fonts/libre-baskerville (updated 2026-09-04)