Claude Garamond (ca. 1480-1561) cut types for the Parisian scholar-printer Robert Estienne in the first part of the sixteenth century, basing his romans on the types cut by Francesco Griffo for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius in 1495. Garamond refined his romans in later versions, adding his own concepts as he developed his skills as a punchcutter. After his death in 1561, the Garamond punches made their way to the printing office of Christoph Plantin in Antwerp, where they were used by Plantin for many decades, and still exist in the Plantin-Moretus museum. Other Garamond punches went to the Frankfurt foundry of Egenolff-Berner, who issued a specimen in 1592 that became an important source of information about the Garamond types for later scholars and designers. In 1621, sixty years after Garamond's death, the French printer Jean Jannon (1580-1635) issued a specimen of typefaces that had some characteristics similar to the Garamond designs, though his letters were more asymmetrical and irregular in slope and axis. Jannon's types disappeared from use for about two hundred years, but were re-discovered in the French national printing office in 1825, when they were wrongly attributed to Claude Garamond. Their true origin was not to be revealed until the 1927 research of Beatrice Warde. In the early 1900s, Jannon's types were used to print a history of printing in France, which brought new attention to French typography and the Garamond" types. This sparked the beginning of modern revivals; some based on the mistaken model from Jannon's types, and others on the original Garamond types. Italics for Garamond fonts have sometimes been based on those cut by Robert Granjon (1513-1589), who worked for Plantin and whose types are also on the Egenolff-Berner specimen. Linotype has several versions of the Garamond typefaces. Though they vary in design and model of origin, they are all considered to be distinctive representations of French Renaissance style; easily recognizable by their elegance and readability. Garamond Pemiere Pro was designed by Robert Slimbach, and released in 2005."

The typeface Fry was developed in 2008 specially for the Sky-Fish company (fish and seafood dealer). Type is designed for small texts, it has friendly and fairytale historic flavor. Fry takes openness and dynamism of humanistic sans serif, simple and softness of lubok's letters (primitive style) and fluidity of shallow marine fry. Despite of funny style, Fry works well even in the 5 point size. In large sizes Fry demonstrates its originality, vivacity and softness, in the small characteristics become less visible, and Fry's readability becomes more important. So this makes the typeface suitable for many tasks of typography. The typeface includes extended set of Latin, old style and lining figures, historical alternates and special local features. The combination of lubok's aesthetics and funny dynamic forms make a nature of Fry. Fry was exhibited at the Svjato Kyrylyci (Kharkov, Ukraine) festival in 2008. It was awarded for excellence in type and graphic design at Modern Cyrillic 2009 competition. Fry was selected among 50 typefaces for the Call for type exhibition in the Gutenberg museum (2013).

Avenue is a specialty font used to create imitation road signs. This is a very simple concept that can provide some versatile results. With an extensive character set, the possibilities for various signs are endless.

Ornaments family with four different sets plus a decorative capitals font from the rare, valuable and amazing Allerlei Zierat book from Schelter & Gieseck (1902). A research and free interpretation by Intellecta Design. This encyclopedic specimen book of the Leipzig, Germany type foundry and printing supply house J.G. Schelter & Giesecke features, as the title indicates, all kinds of decoration for supplying printing of every type. On the title page, the firm boasts winning grand prize in 1900 in Paris (presumably at the Exposition Universelle). It is hard to do justice in a short description to the variety of styles (traditional, Jugenstil, etc.) and categories (certificates, letterheads, borders, ornaments, exotic motifs, flowers, animals, silhouettes, menus, greeting cards, vignettes humorous and otherwise, images of bicyclists, occupational symbols, portraits, Classical figures, religious art, heraldry, ships, trains, athletes, etc., etc.) offered in this volume. Some of the examples are printed in color, most are in black-and-white. The Jugenstil cover of this copy shows minor wear and soiling. The plate of “Gust. Carlsson & Co., Stockholm” is attached to the front pastedown. A small fraction of pages show minor soiling, a pencil notation or a short closed tear. Two of the fold-outs at the back have a little more damage-one is missing a 1x2 inch piece along the margin, the other has a 3-inch closed tear and an edge which is crumpled. A rare specimen from the Intellecta rare books library.

For some time, Eric de Berranger had wanted to create a distressed typeface design - one that gave the appearance of antique printing and showed signs of wear, yet was still highly readable. He was busy designing a new face called Maxime, when an idea struck: I realized that I could use these lettershapes as the basis for my antique typeface," he says. The two faces ended up being designed in tandem. While ITC Oldbook clearly captures the flavor of aged, uneven and imperfect printing, it also meets de Berranger's goal of being exceptionally readable in text sizes. Beginning with well-drawn characters was the key, and these were carefully modeled into the distressed forms. "The process was more difficult than I originally thought," says de Berranger. "The antique letters had to be tested and modified several times to work correctly." ITC Oldbook elegantly simulates antique printing in both text and display sizes. And while stroke weights are uneven and curves are irregular, the design has remarkably even color when set in blocks of text copy. Add to this the design's inherent legibility, and ITC Oldbook acquires a range far beyond replication of things old; it's suitable for any project that calls for warm and weathered typography. ITC Oldbook is available in roman and bold weights with complementary italic designs. Small caps, old style figures and a suite of alternate characters and ornaments provide additional flexibility and personality to the design."

Extraordinary impact and visual conspicuousness. Dr Slab is a super 3D serif family for posters, logos and all display. The basic idea is not a brand new. Stacking type system have been used since before wood type age. As you imagined, colored wood type(woodcut), many other engravings and contemporary printer machine print many colors separately with different printing plates for each colors. Dr Slab uses the same system for 3d effect. Please use Photoshop or Illustrator, or your favorite graphic design apps that can handle layers. Layers are the printing plates of wood type. You should be able to change text color for each layers. Dr Slab "Base" style is the core of this font family. You can add effects by using the other styles(Rim, Shadow, Ext). Instruction 1. Type your text as you like. 2. Set font-name "Dr Slab" and font-style "Base" 3. Set color for "Base". 4. Duplicate the layer which includes "Base" text. 5. Set font-style and color for new layers. 6. Stacked layers in different font-style and color make the text in 3D. For further detail, https://www.dropbox.com/s/9p9083zv2855bcq/DrSlab.pdf Dr Slab "Base" style can be used solely. Rounded slabs add soft, cute and casual impressions to your design. Spec: OpenType Format (.otf) with over 500 glyphs! Basic Latin ✓ Western Europe ✓ Central Europe ✓ South Eastern Europe ✓ Mac Roman ✓ Windows 1252 ✓ Adobe Latin 1 ✓ Adobe Latin 2 ✓ Adobe Latin 3 ✓ Almost all Latins are covered.

Medieval Times is a digital revival of an illuminated alphabet dating back to a text from the medieval period. Each letter is made up of several different human or mythological animal figures engaged in activities that reflect the beliefs and myths of that enchanted era. Some examples of the beings that you will find in this font are: griffins, dragons, chimeras, lions, gargoyles, unknown mythical winged creatures, peasants, priests, saints, and warriors battling with spears. Comes with a full set of accented letters.

Welfords is another lovely modern calligraphy typefaces, which is combining the style of classic calligraphy with an modern style. combines from copperplate to contemporary typeface with a dancing baseline, modern and elegant touch. Welfords features 500 glyphs and alternate characters Include . The Features of this fonts is; Standart ligatures Swash Alternates Stylistic Alternates Stylistic sets PUA Unicode (Private Use Areas) Programs that support in this font is a Adobe Photo Shop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Corel Draw and Microsoft Office.

Tallove is lovely script font with swash on beginning & ending word. This font perfect for valentine & wedding theme design. Combine it with Tallove beginning, ending swash & ligatures to make perfect design for yor projects. Tallove perfect for valentine promotion, wedding invitation, branding, logo, invitation, stationery, social media post, product packaging, merchandise, blog design, game titles, cute style design, Book/Cover Title and more. What's Included : - Tallove Font - Beginning Swash - Ending Swash - Ligature - Multilingual Support --- Hope you enjoy with our font! Attype Studio

Say Hi to East Botany. A new bold and stylish font with modern, groovy and retro look. It comes with large selection of alternate glyphs to give your any project to a unique design. East Botany is perfect for luxury logo and branding, classy editorial design, woman magazine, cosmetic brand, fashion promotional, blog design, modern advertising design, card invitation, art quote, book/cover title, and modern and more. Features : · All Uppercase and Lowercase · Number & Symbol · Supported Languages · Alternates and Ligatures · PUA Encoded

Hello there, Proudly presenting SUPER DISCOUNT. It is stylish marker font. It’s in two styles: Regular and Bold. SUPER DISCOUNT was designed to make logotype and lettering for your brands. And it’s would perfect for t-shirts/ apparel, promotional materials, sports, music festival, quotes, special events, or anything. What’s Included : Works on PC & Mac Easy to use ( Installations ) Easy Convert to Webfont Compatibility Windows, Apple, Linux, Cricut, Silhouette, and Other cutting machines Thanks for downloading, and I hope you enjoy it!

Cogeen is a fun display typeface that may be used for a variety of projects. This typeface is meant to be as distinctive as possible in order to generate a unique and memorable impression, making your project appear powerful and charismatic. Of course, this typeface is appropriate for a wide range of creative applications, including game covers, titles, book covers, outdoor events, posters, banners, promotional material, movie titles, YouTube covers and thumbnails, children’s games, cartoon projects, and other unique projects.

"Hayoo Holiday" is a display font where each character has a wavy appearance. Fonts like this add an element of playfulness and fun to your design. Wavy characters provide a unique look and can be used in various design projects that aim to emphasize a creative and cheerful touch. This font is often used in designs for special events, parties, or promotional materials that want to grab attention and create a festive atmosphere. With "Hayoo Holiday," you can create stylish and spirited designs.

Xylotype guru Rob Roy Kelly identified this specimen from his personal collection as "Phanitalian". This addition to the Whiz-Bang Woodtype series takes its name from a small Texas town in the middle of nowhere which has risen to international prominence—at least for folks interested in such things—as the site of the World Championship Chili Cook-off. Both versions of this font contain the Unicode 1252 (Latin) and Unicode 1250 (Central European) character sets, with localization for Romanian and Moldovan.

Blackout SCF is a loose and informal grungy font with a modern, electric zappy quality. The font is particularly useable for the promotion of products aimed at young and trendy consumers. It can be used for the design of: CD and DVD covers; clothing advertising and swing tags; magazines and advertising; and cosmetic packaging. It has been carefully letterspaced and kerned. It contains a full character set: all upper and lower case characters, punctuation, numerals and accented characters are present.

“Drone Spray” is a stylish modern graffiti font with casual quirky style. It is perfect for branding, promotion, product packaging, t-shirt and other needs. You will get full set of lowercase and uppercase letters, numerals and punctuation, multilingual symbols, ligatures and extra swashes that giving realistic graffiti style. n order to use the beautiful stroke, you need a program that supports features such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Indesign and Corel Draw. Thanks and have a wonderful day, Haksen

From completely OUT OF THE BLUE, here’s a font you'll need when, unexpectedly -- with a sense of immediate urgency -- your characters abruptly call out without warning and on the spur of the moment! When Suddenly ’s prompt! It’s abrupt! It responds in a flash! Now you can put all the words you need in your comic book in such a way that they'll come as a complete surprise to all your readers! When Suddenly is BOLD! It’s ITALIC! It’s anything but REGULAR!

Meira is a Modern serif typeface Unique alternate , multilingual support with perfect kerning. This typeface is perfect for an elegant & luxury logo , classy editorial design, women's magazine, fashion brand , cosmetic brand, fashion promotion , modern advertising design, invitation card, art quote, home decoration , book/cover titles, special events, and much more. Meira Features: · Uppercase & Lowercase · Alternates & Ligatures · Numerals & Punctuation · Accented characters · Multilingual Support · Unicode PUA Encoded If you want the SVG version please contact me. Thanks and have a wonderful day .

Introducing scarlet Bradley font duo, Scarlet Bradley is a beautiful serif and script font with more alternative character – serif font with a complementary italic version. Scarlet Bradley come with elegant script font lowercase ending swash make your work more beautiful. It is great for making logotype, branding, promotional ads, quotes design, packaging, merchandise, poster, merchandise, social media and much more. Let’s make your work to next level!! Features ( Regular, Italic and script ) Compatiblity Windows Apple/Mac Linux Easily convert to webfont Cricut Silhouette

Introducing. Dassie - Expanded Display Fonts Cool display fonts are ready to create new ideas for your design projects. It is good to be applied to various types of designs for young people today and goes back to the past. Now you can team up with this font to create t-shirt designs, book covers, posters, logos, landing pages, promotional designs, social media posts etc. See some of the previews above for reference. Features: • All Caps • Numeral • Punctuation • Multilingual • PUA Encoded Thanks.

Reusco Display comes with some alternates, so you can combine it to make a perfect typography design. It is perfect for your up coming projects. Such as luxury logo and branding, classy editorial design, woman magazine, cosmetic brand, fashion promotional, art gallery branding, museum, historical of architectural, boutique branding, stationery design, blog design, modern advertising design, card invitation, art quote, home decor, book/cover title, special events and any more. That's it! Have fun with Reusco Display font. Thank you! Tebaltipis Studio

Anaira is a delicate and incredibly distinct handwritten font with dingbats character of bells & ribbon. Perfect for christmas promotion and christmas design, Fall in love with its incredibly versatile style and use it to create spectacular designs! Anaira is perfect for branding, logo, invitation, stationery, social media post, product packaging, merchandise, christmas font, blog design, game titles, cute style design, Book/Cover Title and more. What's Included : - Anaira.otf - Beginning & Ending Dingbats - Multilingual Support --- Hope you enjoy with our font! Attype Studio

Au Revoir - saying goodbye is one of the hardest things in life, but in a sense it is also beautiful: there is a promise of seeing each other again, as 'Au revoir' literally means: 'to the next time we see one another'. Au Revoir font is slightly cursive, elegant without being posh, simple and legible. You could write a poem or a farewell letter with it, but I guess its simplicity lets you use it in various other, less dramatic, designs.

Astroviz is more than just a font it's a design statement. Its deep ink traps are the defining feature that sets it apart, making it an ideal choice for creating captivating and memorable headlines that demand attention and leave a lasting impression. While the ink traps are a prominent feature, Astroviz maintains an elegant and curvaceous design overall. Its letterforms are fluid and harmonious, with a balance of thick and thin strokes that give it a luxurious and sophisticated appearance.

Sambosa - Modern Serif Font is a stylish font It has both modern look. Comes with Bold and Bold Italic, helps to create stunning logos, quotes, posts, blog posts. branding projects, magazine imagery, wedding invitations, and much more. Containing full set of punctuation and numerals Files for all fonts are included. That's it! If you have any questions at all , feel free to pop me a private message , I'm always more than happy to help you along :) Happy creating! Hanief Studio

Presenting Masa Brush! A Brush San Serif with an organic texture. It looks original and can be used for all your project needs. Each glyph has its own uniqueness and when meeting with others will provide dynamic and pleasing proximity. This font can be used at any time and on any project. So, Masa Brush can't wait to give its touch to all your design projects such as quotes, poster design, personal branding, promotional materials, logotype, product packaging, etc. Happy Creating! www.azetypestudios.com

BLUM is a beautiful bubble font for lovely logotypes, branding & display usage. This font is perfect for creating outstanding logos, promotional content, and marketing graphics that can really grab the attention of your visitors. Please see the examples shown above to get an idea about the capability of this font. This font is specially handmade with great OpenType features in mind, each weight includes extended language support including Western European & Central European sets. A total of 249 glyphs are included.

Retro modern serif typeface inspired by the typography of the ’90s, which exudes an irresistible sense of nostalgic and timeless charm. Each character showcases sharp, defined serifs that effortlessly merge with thick, prominent strokes, creating a harmonious balance between boldness and elegance. Features : Full Set of standard characters and punctuations. Alternates, Ligatures & Multilingual Support PUA Encoded | no special software needed to access extra characters. We recommend using a program that supports OpenType features and Glyphs panels like Adobe Apps, Corel, etc.

Mangan Nova is the semi-condensed version of Mangan. Designed for strong headlines but with slender and economical proportions, it fosters space saving text applications while permitting very pleasant reading. Mangan Nova, as does also Mangan, comprises 14 styles and is well suited for ambitious typography. It comes in OpenType format with extended language support. All weights contain small caps, ordinals, ligatures, proportional lining figures, tabular lining figures, proportional old style figures, lining old style figures, matching currency symbols, fraction- and scientific numerals.

Meet Pristine Pro, the epitome of elegance and precision in typography. This Slab Serif font, meticulously developed with a humanistic touch, promises unparalleled sophistication for your projects. Its 18 versatile font families, ranging from Thin to Black, offer a tailored solution for every design need. Explore the seamless blend of clean lines and firm structure that defines Pristine Pro. This font isn't just a typeface; it's a statement of modernity and style. With support for 89 international languages, including English, French, Spanish, and German, Pristine Pro caters to a global audience, ensuring your designs communicate effectively worldwide. Desire perfection in your designs? Pristine Pro delivers. Craft compelling branding, striking posters, or editorial layouts with confidence. Its immaculate precision and extensive language support empower your creativity. Your desire for flawlessness finds its match in Pristine Pro, promising visuals that captivate, leaving a lasting impression on any audience. Ready to elevate your designs? Take action now. Download Pristine Pro and witness your creativity flourish. Unleash the power of clean Slab Serif typography with international appeal. Dominate the digital space, ensuring your projects rank high and capture attention. Seize this opportunity and transform your designs into timeless masterpieces.

Paneuropa 1931™ is a faithful recreation of XX-century Polish classic, made by Idzikowski foundry in Warsaw, 1931. Original Paneuropa was a renowned and highly popular typeface in XX-century Poland, and was widely used in all kinds of design, editorial use and printed materials for decades. Paneuropa is a geometric, clean and versatile font family inspired by Paul Renner's famous Futura - it is a bit narrower, with different proportions and details in drawing, completely different figures and punctuation shapes than Futura. It is an interesting and refreshing alternative to Futura with its own distinct personality and a subtle authentic vintage flavour. Paneuropa 1931 contains separate styles for display and large sizes as well as styles for small text sizes - differing in spacing and the softness of letterforms. The family features an original Paneuropa Double font - a beautiful inline style for headlines and display use. The whole family is completed with added missing inbetween styles as well as italics. The original subfamily set is available for purchase and it contains solely the original Paneuropa styles (Thin, Regular, Bold, Text Regular, Text Italic, Double). Paneuropa 1931 characteristics: letter shapes and proportions are very faithful to the original, keeping its idiosycrasies and inconsistencies spacing and kerning are carefully adjusted in order to achieve the colour of the original fonts, keeping maximum possible consistency - a compromise between authentic vintage feel and legible consistent text colour (for hardcore users: just turn off the kerning) weights precisely matching the original (Thin, Regular, Bold, Text Regular, Text Italic, Double), inbetween weights were added (Light, Demi Bold, as well as missing italic styles) italic angle faithful to the original (8 degrees) softened corners help achieving the character of old imprecise printed display styles for big sizes are sharper and have tight spacing, text styles have softer shapes (recreating small print imperfect print) and broader spacing for use in paragraph text (spacing in both display and text styles matches the original as well) original style names in Polish for devices with Polish set as their primary language The family is very versatile. The Inline style as well as bold and thin weights are perfect for headlines and display use, other styles works wonderfully as paragraph text. Paneuropa 1931 consists of 18 fonts - 5 display weights with corresponding italics + 3 text weights with corresponding italics + 2 inline styles (for big and small print sizes). It has extended support for latin languages, as well as broad number of OpenType features, such as case sensitive forms, fractions, superscript and subscript, ordinals, currencies and symbols.

SCR fonts are screen optimized (also called 'pixel fonts'). Unlike standard fonts (and like the few well-hinted fonts like Verdana or Arial), they give a crisp look on screen at very small sizes, thus increasing legibility. The perfect applications for those fonts are web pages and software user interfaces (computer, cellular phones, console games and any other system that uses a screen interface). Unlike most pixel fonts, SCR fonts contain kerning information. Kerning is the adjustment of space between certain pairs of characters (like 'AV') to make text look more fluid, thus increasing legibility and appeal. To benefit from this feature, auto-kerning must be activated in the application. In Photoshop, kerning must be set to 'Metrics'. Although SCR fonts are optimized for screen, they can be used for print (in Illustrator or Indesign for example) for a decorative 'computer text' effect. In this case, there is no constraint: they can be used as any other font. For screen use (in Photoshop, Fireworks, Flash... ), they have to keep aligned with the screen pixel grid not to look blurred or distorted. To achieve this, here are the guidelines to follow: RESOLUTION If the application permits it (Photoshop, Fireworks), document resolution must be set to 72 pixels per inch. SIZE The font size must be set to 10 (or multiples of 10) points. POSITIONING & ALIGNMENT The reference points of text fields and text blocks (upper left corner for left aligned text, upper right for right aligned text) must be positioned at integer values of pixels. In Photoshop, text can be precisely moved with [Edit Free Transform]. In Flash, movie clips containing text fields must also be positioned at integer values on the stage. Text must be aligned to the left or right only. Center alignment can be simulated with left alignment by adding spaces at the begin of each line. To dispense with the positioning and alignment constraints, text anti-aliasing can be turned off if the application permits it (Photoshop, Flash MX 2004). OTHER SETTINGS Leading (line spacing), tracking (letter spacing), manual kerning and baseline shift must be set either to integer values of points or to multiples of 100 units (depending on the application). Vertical and horizontal scaling must be set to 100%. Faux bold or Faux italic must not be used. The document must neither be resized on export, nor allow resizing (Flash Movies).

SCR fonts are screen optimized (also called 'pixel fonts'). Unlike standard fonts (and like the few well-hinted fonts like Verdana or Arial), they give a crisp look on screen at very small sizes, thus increasing legibility. The perfect applications for those fonts are web pages and software user interfaces (computer, cellular phones, console games and any other system that uses a screen interface). Unlike most pixel fonts, SCR fonts contain kerning information. Kerning is the adjustment of space between certain pairs of characters (like 'AV') to make text look more fluid, thus increasing legibility and appeal. To benefit from this feature, auto-kerning must be activated in the application. In Photoshop, kerning must be set to 'Metrics'. Although SCR fonts are optimized for screen, they can be used for print (in Illustrator or Indesign for example) for a decorative 'computer text' effect. In this case, there is no constraint: they can be used as any other font. For screen use (in Photoshop, Fireworks, Flash... ), they have to keep aligned with the screen pixel grid not to look blurred or distorted. To achieve this, here are the guidelines to follow: RESOLUTION If the application permits it (Photoshop, Fireworks), document resolution must be set to 72 pixels per inch. SIZE The font size must be set to 10 (or multiples of 10) points. POSITIONING & ALIGNMENT The reference points of text fields and text blocks (upper left corner for left aligned text, upper right for right aligned text) must be positioned at integer values of pixels. In Photoshop, text can be precisely moved with [Edit Free Transform]. In Flash, movie clips containing text fields must also be positioned at integer values on the stage. Text must be aligned to the left or right only. Center alignment can be simulated with left alignment by adding spaces at the begin of each line. To dispense with the positioning and alignment constraints, text anti-aliasing can be turned off if the application permits it (Photoshop, Flash MX 2004). OTHER SETTINGS Leading (line spacing), tracking (letter spacing), manual kerning and baseline shift must be set either to integer values of points or to multiples of 100 units (depending on the application). Vertical and horizontal scaling must be set to 100%. Faux bold or Faux italic must not be used. The document must neither be resized on export, nor allow resizing (Flash Movies).

John Baskerville (1706-1775) was an accomplished writing master and printer from Birmingham, England. He was the designer of several types, punchcut by John Handy, which are the basis for the fonts that bear the name Baskerville today. The excellent quality of his printing influenced such famous printers as Didot in France and Bodoni in Italy. Though he was known internationally as an innovator of technique and style, his high standards for paper and ink quality made it difficult for him to compete with local commercial printers. However, his fellow Englishmen imitated his types, and in 1768, Isaac Moore punchcut a version of Baskerville's letterforms for the Fry Foundry. Baskerville produced a masterpiece folio Bible for Cambridge University, and today, his types are considered to be fine representations of eighteenth century rationalism and neoclassicism. Legible and eminently dignified, Baskerville makes an excellent text typeface; and its sharp, high-contrast forms make it suitable for elegant advertising pieces as well. The Linotype portfolio offers many versions of this design: ITC New Baskerville® was designed by John Quaranda in 1978. Baskerville Cyrillic was designed by the Linotype Design Studio. Baskerville Greek was designed by Matthew Carter in 1978. Baskerville™ Classico was designed by Franko Luin in 1995."

John Baskerville (1706-1775) was an accomplished writing master and printer from Birmingham, England. He was the designer of several types, punchcut by John Handy, which are the basis for the fonts that bear the name Baskerville today. The excellent quality of his printing influenced such famous printers as Didot in France and Bodoni in Italy. Though he was known internationally as an innovator of technique and style, his high standards for paper and ink quality made it difficult for him to compete with local commercial printers. However, his fellow Englishmen imitated his types, and in 1768, Isaac Moore punchcut a version of Baskerville's letterforms for the Fry Foundry. Baskerville produced a masterpiece folio Bible for Cambridge University, and today, his types are considered to be fine representations of eighteenth century rationalism and neoclassicism. Legible and eminently dignified, Baskerville makes an excellent text typeface; and its sharp, high-contrast forms make it suitable for elegant advertising pieces as well. The Linotype portfolio offers many versions of this design: ITC New Baskerville® was designed by John Quaranda in 1978. Baskerville Cyrillic was designed by the Linotype Design Studio. Baskerville Greek was designed by Matthew Carter in 1978. Baskerville™ Classico was designed by Franko Luin in 1995."

John Baskerville (1706-1775) was an accomplished writing master and printer from Birmingham, England. He was the designer of several types, punchcut by John Handy, which are the basis for the fonts that bear the name Baskerville today. The excellent quality of his printing influenced such famous printers as Didot in France and Bodoni in Italy. Though he was known internationally as an innovator of technique and style, his high standards for paper and ink quality made it difficult for him to compete with local commercial printers. However, his fellow Englishmen imitated his types, and in 1768, Isaac Moore punchcut a version of Baskerville's letterforms for the Fry Foundry. Baskerville produced a masterpiece folio Bible for Cambridge University, and today, his types are considered to be fine representations of eighteenth century rationalism and neoclassicism. Legible and eminently dignified, Baskerville makes an excellent text typeface; and its sharp, high-contrast forms make it suitable for elegant advertising pieces as well. The Linotype portfolio offers many versions of this design: ITC New Baskerville® was designed by John Quaranda in 1978. Baskerville Cyrillic was designed by the Linotype Design Studio. Baskerville Greek was designed by Matthew Carter in 1978. Baskerville™ Classico was designed by Franko Luin in 1995."

John Baskerville (1706-1775) was an accomplished writing master and printer from Birmingham, England. He was the designer of several types, punchcut by John Handy, which are the basis for the fonts that bear the name Baskerville today. The excellent quality of his printing influenced such famous printers as Didot in France and Bodoni in Italy. Though he was known internationally as an innovator of technique and style, his high standards for paper and ink quality made it difficult for him to compete with local commercial printers. However, his fellow Englishmen imitated his types, and in 1768, Isaac Moore punchcut a version of Baskerville's letterforms for the Fry Foundry. Baskerville produced a masterpiece folio Bible for Cambridge University, and today, his types are considered to be fine representations of eighteenth century rationalism and neoclassicism. Legible and eminently dignified, Baskerville makes an excellent text typeface; and its sharp, high-contrast forms make it suitable for elegant advertising pieces as well. The Linotype portfolio offers many versions of this design: ITC New Baskerville® was designed by John Quaranda in 1978. Baskerville Cyrillic was designed by the Linotype Design Studio. Baskerville Greek was designed by Matthew Carter in 1978. Baskerville™ Classico was designed by Franko Luin in 1995."