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Baskervville SC

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ANRT

4 Styles Serif

The pleasure
of a well-set
page.

Baskervville SC · Regular

Compare this serif family in headings and a continuous reading sample.

4 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.

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TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1

Set Your Own Text

Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.

Chapter the First

A Page In Baskervville SC

Baskervville SC · Regular

Headings, labels and running text.

Notes From The Reading Room

The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.

A heading marks the next chapter. The margins leave room for a note while the text continues across the page.

4 Styles,
One Family

Every available style is shown below in its own font file.

Regular400

Chapter the First

Medium500

Chapter the First

Semi Bold600

Chapter the First

Bold700

Chapter the First

The double v in the name carries a history. In 1779 Sarah Eaves sold John Baskerville’s punches to Beaumarchais, whose printing house was in Kehl, and an employee there named Claude Jacob was sent to Birmingham to check and repair them. Back in Kehl he fell out with his employer, set up a foundry in Strasbourg in 1784, and cut his own version of the type, selling it as “caractères dans le genre Baskerwille”, with a w. His specimens grew from 3 sizes to 6, in roman and italic, and from 1815 the type was distributed by the Berger-Levrault foundry.

What makes Jacob’s version interesting is the split in it. The roman stays close to Baskerville, while the italic leans toward Didot, so the type sits between the transitional and the modern.

The digital version is an ANRT student project from 2017, led by Charles Mazé and Thomas Huot-Marchand, which Rosalie Wagner, 1 of the 6 students, carried on to a finished font. The Bold came later, in 2025, drawn by Huot-Marchand himself.

This SC family sets everything as small caps, in Regular, Medium, Semi Bold and Bold. It is the version for running heads and title pages, next to the regular Baskervville for the text itself. Old style figures and fractions are included.

Baskervville SC type specimen with letters and figures
Baskervville SC · Type Specimen

Characters & Figures

411 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !

View The Recorded Character Selection
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The Font Files

Download
Baskervville SC

4 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.

Download ZIP · 177 KB ↓
Version
1.100
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Install On Your Computer

Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.

Use On A Website

Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.

<link rel="stylesheet"
  href="/fonts/baskervville-sc-2/baskervville-sc-2.css">

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

Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.

Heading & Body

The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.

Baskervville SC Heading · Inter Body

Notes From The Reading Room

The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.