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Baskervville SC

The small caps companion of Baskervville, ANRT's revival of an 1815 French take on Baskerville's type; four weights.

Serif 4 styles · variable by ANRT OFL

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Baskervville SC is the small-capitals companion to Baskervville, a serif family from ANRT that revives a French recutting of Baskerville's type. Baskervville SC is a variable font with a weight axis from 400 to 700, four upright weights and 707 glyphs. Baskervville SC is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits titles, bylines and running heads.

Baskervville SC font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
ANRT
Classification
Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
4 4 weights
Variable font
Yes Weight 400–700
Glyphs
707
Languages checked
24 see the list
Last updated
version 1.100
Used for
HeadlinesEditorialElegant

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

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Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Baskervville SC; the download contains the complete files.

Baskervville SC font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Baskervville SC specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files. The lowercase row shows small capitals because that is what the lowercase keys produce in this family.

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Baskervville SC Regular
  • Medium 500Baskervville SC Medium
  • SemiBold 600Baskervville SC SemiBold
  • Bold 700Baskervville SC Bold

Baskervville SC is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Baskervville SC

Baskervville SC is a serif typeface published as the small-capitals companion to Baskervville. The parent design digitises a type that the Berger-Levrault foundry distributed from 1815, cut by Jacob in the manner of Baskerville and sold under the spelling Baskerwille, with a w. ANRT students of 2017 drew the revival, directed by Charles Mazé, and Rosalie Wagner handled its development and production. The specimen shows a transitional serif with sharp contrast between thick and thin strokes, fine bracketed serifs, a Q with a long curling tail and old-style figures that rise and fall around the x-height. The family is a variable font with a weight axis from 400 to 700 and four named weights, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold. Its 707 glyphs cover the Latin and Latin Extended sets. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Baskervville SC works

Bylines and running heads
A small caps family sets author names and page headers in the same design as Baskervville body text.
Book title pages
High-contrast capitals and the curled Q give a title page the look of early nineteenth-century French printing.
Acronyms and abbreviations in text
Small capitals drawn for the purpose sit more quietly in a paragraph than full capitals reduced in size.
Section headings with a weight step
The 400 to 700 axis lets headings move from Regular to Bold without changing family.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 707 glyphs.

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
  • Italian
  • Dutch
  • Swedish
  • Norwegian
  • Danish
  • Finnish
  • Icelandic
  • Catalan
  • Turkish
  • Polish
  • Czech
  • Slovak
  • Hungarian
  • Romanian
  • Croatian
  • Slovenian
  • Lithuanian
  • Latvian
  • Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2018 The Baskervville Project Authors (https://github.com/anrt-type/ANRT-Baskervville)

What the license allows

  • Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
  • Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
  • Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions

  • The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
  • A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
  • The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Baskervville SC

Baskervville Serif

Baskervville SC is the small-capitals companion to Baskervville, so the two share one design: Baskervville for text, the SC family for small capitals.

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Baskervville SC on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Baskervville SC";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/BaskervvilleSC-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Baskervville SC with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

A companion family
Baskervville SC is meant to be used with Baskervville, which supplies the regular lowercase and the italics.
No italic
The four styles are upright. The italic of the revival belongs to the parent family.
Old-style figures
The numerals in the specimen have ascenders and descenders, so 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9 drop below the baseline.
One variable file
The package holds a single variable font with a weight axis from 400 to 700.

FAQs

Is Baskervville SC free for commercial use?

Yes, within the terms of the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Baskervville SC can be used in personal and commercial projects, modified and passed on; it cannot be sold by itself, and derivatives remain under the same license.

Who designed Baskervville SC?

Baskervville SC is credited to ANRT. The revival was drawn by its 2017 students, among them Rosalie Wagner, Alexis Faudot and Rémi Forte, with Charles Mazé as director.

Why is Baskervville SC spelled with two v's?

The source type was sold in France as Baskerwille, with a w in place of the v. The name Baskervville SC refers to that spelling.

How many weights does Baskervville SC have?

Baskervville SC has four weights: Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600 and Bold 700.

Is Baskervville SC a variable font?

Yes. Baskervville SC is a variable font; its weight axis runs from 400 to 700.

Which languages does Baskervville SC support?

Baskervville SC includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Polish, Czech and Romanian. Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

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