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- Baskerville abstract "Baskerville is a transitional serif typeface designed in 1757 by John Baskerville (1706–1775) in Birmingham, England. Baskerville is classified as a transitional typeface, positioned between the old style typefaces of William Caslon, and the newer styles of Giambattista Bodoni & Firmin Didot.The Baskerville typeface is the result of John Baskerville's intent to improve upon the types of William Caslon. He increased the contrast between thick and thin strokes, making the serifs sharper and more tapered, and shifted the axis of rounded letters to a more vertical position. The curved strokes are more circular in shape, and the characters became more regular. These changes created a greater consistency in size and form. Baskerville's typeface was the culmination of a larger series of experiments to improve legibility which also included paper making and ink manufacturing. The result was a typeface that reflected Baskerville's ideals of perfection, where he chose simplicity and quiet refinement. His background as a writing master is evident in the distinctive swash tail on the uppercase Q and in the cursive serifs in the Baskerville Italic.In 1757, Baskerville published his first work, a collection of Virgil, which was followed by some fifty other classics. In 1758, he was appointed printer to the Cambridge University Press. It was there in 1763 that he published his master work, a folio Bible, which was printed using his own typeface, ink, and paper.The perfection of his work seems to have unsettled his contemporaries, and some claimed the stark contrasts in his printing damaged the eyes. Abroad, however, he was much admired, notably by Pierre Simon Fournier, Giambattista Bodoni (who intended at one point to come to England to work under him), and Benjamin Franklin.After falling out of use with the onset of the modern typefaces such as Bodoni, Baskerville was revived in 1917 by Bruce Rogers, for the Harvard University Press and released by Deberny & Peignot.".
- Baskerville thumbnail BaskervilleSpec.svg?width=300.
- Baskerville wikiPageExternalLink baskerville-john.
- Baskerville wikiPageExternalLink openbaskerville.
- Baskerville wikiPageExternalLink Baskerville.
- Baskerville wikiPageID "4150425".
- Baskerville wikiPageRevisionID "605040920".
- Baskerville classifications Serif.
- Baskerville creator John_Baskerville.
- Baskerville date "1757".
- Baskerville foundry Deberny_&_Peignot.
- Baskerville foundry Mergenthaler_Linotype_Company.
- Baskerville hasPhotoCollection Baskerville.
- Baskerville shownHere František_Štorm.
- Baskerville shownHere "Baskerville Ten by".
- Baskerville style Serif.
- Baskerville variations Mrs_Eaves.
- Baskerville variations John_Baskerville_(typeface).
- Baskerville wordnet_type synset-font-noun-1.
- Baskerville subject Category:Digital_typefaces.
- Baskerville subject Category:Letterpress_typefaces.
- Baskerville subject Category:Lowercase_numerals_typefaces.
- Baskerville subject Category:Photocomposition_typefaces.
- Baskerville subject Category:Public_domain_typefaces.
- Baskerville subject Category:Transitional_serif_typefaces.
- Baskerville type Abstraction100002137.
- Baskerville type Character106818970.
- Baskerville type Communication100033020.
- Baskerville type Font106825399.
- Baskerville type LetterpressTypefaces.
- Baskerville type LowercaseNumeralsTypefaces.
- Baskerville type PhotocompositionTypefaces.
- Baskerville type PublicDomainTypefaces.
- Baskerville type Signal106791372.
- Baskerville type Symbol106806469.
- Baskerville type TransitionalSerifTypefaces.
- Baskerville type Type106825120.
- Baskerville type VirtualTypefaces.
- Baskerville type WrittenSymbol106817623.
- Baskerville comment "Baskerville is a transitional serif typeface designed in 1757 by John Baskerville (1706–1775) in Birmingham, England. Baskerville is classified as a transitional typeface, positioned between the old style typefaces of William Caslon, and the newer styles of Giambattista Bodoni & Firmin Didot.The Baskerville typeface is the result of John Baskerville's intent to improve upon the types of William Caslon.".
- Baskerville label "Baskerville (Schriftart)".
- Baskerville label "Baskerville (lettertype)".
- Baskerville label "Baskerville (police d'écriture)".
- Baskerville label "Baskerville".
- Baskerville label "Baskerville".
- Baskerville sameAs Baskerville_(Schriftart).
- Baskerville sameAs Baskerville.
- Baskerville sameAs Baskerville_(police_d'écriture).
- Baskerville sameAs Baskerville.
- Baskerville sameAs Baskerville_(lettertype).
- Baskerville sameAs m.025s_4z.
- Baskerville sameAs Q768857.
- Baskerville sameAs Q768857.
- Baskerville sameAs Baskerville.
- Baskerville wasDerivedFrom Baskerville?oldid=605040920.
- Baskerville depiction BaskervilleSpec.svg.
- Baskerville isPrimaryTopicOf Baskerville.