# Baskervville SC font > The small caps companion of Baskervville, ANRT's revival of an 1815 French take on Baskerville's type; four weights. 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. ## Facts - Classification: [Serif](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/serif) - Designed by: ANRT - License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/) - Styles: 4 (Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600, Bold 700) - Variable font: Yes (wght 400–700) - Glyphs: 707 - Character sets: latin, latin-ext - Last updated: 2025-09-08 - Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Baskervville+SC - Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/baskervville-sc - Tagged for: Headlines, Editorial, Elegant ## 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. ## License SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright 2018 The Baskervville Project Authors (https://github.com/anrt-type/ANRT-Baskervville) Allowed: - 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. Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/ ## Where it 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. ## 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. --- Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/baskervville-sc (trendhub)