About: Baskerville

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Transitional serif typeface designed in the 1750s

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  • skrifttype (da)
  • lettertype (nl)
  • police de caractères serif transitoire conçue dans les années 1750 (fr)
  • Serifen-Schrift in den 1750er Jahren entworfen (de)
  • Talpas betűtípus (hu)
  • teclyn seriff a gynlluniwyd yn y 1750au (cy)
  • tipo di font (it)
  • transitional serif typeface designed in the 1750s (en)
  • tipo de letra serif diseñado en la década de 1750. (es)
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  • right (en)
  • left (en)
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  • Baskerville (en)
  • Bembo (en)
  • Baskerville's slab (en)
  • Monotype Baskerville (en)
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  • A slate carved by John Baskerville in his early career offering his services carving tombstones, in blackletter, roman, script and italic. The design is similar to his typography. A recreation in Monotype Baskerville shows the similarities of letterforms. (en)
  • Fry's Baskerville showing its key features: a nearly vertical axis of thinnest points , a high stroke contrast and nearly-horizontal serifs which are sharp points . This compares to earlier type designs such as Bembo with a diagonal axis , less stroke contrast and serifs at a greater angle to the horizontal . (en)
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  • Right (en)
  • left (en)
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  • 1757 (xsd:integer)
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  • vertical (en)
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  • center (en)
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  • 2 (xsd:integer)
  • 3 (xsd:integer)
  • Baskerville slab.png (en)
  • John_Baskerville_writing_master_slab.jpg (en)
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  • 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...It is not my desire to print many books, but such only as are books of Consequence, of intrinsic merit or established Reputation, and which the public may be pleased to see in an elegant dress, and to purchase at such a price as will repay the extraordinary care and expense that must necessarily be bestowed upon them. (en)
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  • Baskerville's preface to Milton (en)
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  • 200 (xsd:integer)
  • 30.0 (dbd:perCent)
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  • Baskerville (en)
  • Baskerville (Schriftart) (de)
  • Baskerville (tipo de letra) (es)
  • Baskerville (police d'écriture) (fr)
  • Baskerville (in)
  • Baskerville (carattere) (it)
  • Baskerville (lettertype) (nl)
  • Baskerville (pl)
  • Baskerville (sv)
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