“Baskervville is a revival of Jacob’s interpretation of
Baskerville’s typeface. It was distributed by the foundry Rolland &
Jacob in Strasbourg in the late 18th Century. The typeface was
later sold by the Société Typographique Levrault (then Berger
Levrault) as a “Caractères dans le genre Baskerwille” i.e
“Baskerwille alike fonts” — with a w instead of a v. ¶ The
particularity of Jacob’s Baskerwille is that the roman is very
close to Baskerville’s typefaces, while the italic is closer to
Didot’s typefaces. The ANRT workshop aimed to digitize Jacob’s font
in order to show his work which moves from transitional to modern
styles.” – ANRT
Started in 2017 in a workshop at ANRT, by Alexis Faudot, Rémi
Forte, Morgane Pierson, Rafael Ribas, Tanguy Vanlaeys, and Rosalie
Wagner. Further developed More…
“Baskervville is a revival of Jacob’s interpretation of Baskerville’s typeface. It was distributed by the foundry Rolland & Jacob in Strasbourg in the late 18th Century. The typeface was later sold by the Société Typographique Levrault (then Berger Levrault) as a “Caractères dans le genre Baskerwille” i.e “Baskerwille alike fonts” — with a w instead of a v. ¶ The particularity of Jacob’s Baskerwille is that the roman is very close to Baskerville’s typefaces, while the italic is closer to Didot’s typefaces. The ANRT workshop aimed to digitize Jacob’s font in order to show his work which moves from transitional to modern styles.” – ANRT
Started in 2017 in a workshop at ANRT, by Alexis Faudot, Rémi Forte, Morgane Pierson, Rafael Ribas, Tanguy Vanlaeys, and Rosalie Wagner. Further developed and produced by Rosalie Wagner, and made available under the SIL Open Font License.
See also BBB Baskervvol.
