The ITC New Baskerville™ typeface family is a modern interpretation of the original fonts developed in 1762 by British type founder and printer John Baskerville. During the centuries since its creation, Baskerville has remained one of the world's most widely used typefaces.
The Baskerville typestyle shares design traits with old style typefaces while foreshadowing the innovations of the neoclassical Didot™ and Bodoni™ designs. Typical of an old style, Baskerville’s serifs are heavily bracketed and its lowercase head-serifs are obliqued. Contrast in stroke weight is more pronounced than in the Garamond or Caslon™ typefaces, yet it does not approach the extremes reached by Bodoni or Didot. Baskerville’s weight stress, however, is vertical – gone is the inclined axis of curves found in old style typefaces.
ITC New Baskerville is an exceptionally legible design, with a genial demeanor. More than merely easy to read, ITC New Baskerville is inviting to the reader.
The ITC New Baskerville family is also available as a suite of OpenType® Pro fonts. Graphic communicators can work with this versatile design while taking advantage of OpenType’s capabilities, including the automatic insertion of old style figures, ligatures and small caps.
The ITC New Baskerville Pro fonts also offer an extended character set supporting most Central European and many Eastern European languages.