Monotype’s adaptation of Baskerville. A.k.a.
Baskerville Old Face. Made in roman and italic
(Series 169, 1923), Semi-Bold with italic
(313, 1932), Bold with italic (312,
1933), Bold Large Face (377, 1933), Extra Bold Titling
(380, 1933). [Reichardt 2011]
“[The American] Lanston Monotype Baskerville is
virtually a duplicate of the English Monotype face […] cut in 1923
under the direction of Stanley Morison, being derived from the great
primer (18-point) size of Baskerville’s type, and copied by Lanston
in 1931. The Intertype roman face is substantially the same as
Monotype except for adaptation to mechanical requirements. But
while the Monotype italic is considerably narrower than the roman,
on Intertype the two faces are necessarily the same width.”
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Monotype’s adaptation of Baskerville. A.k.a. Baskerville Old Face. Made in roman and italic (Series 169, 1923), Semi-Bold with italic (313, 1932), Bold with italic (312, 1933), Bold Large Face (377, 1933), Extra Bold Titling (380, 1933). [Reichardt 2011]
“[The American] Lanston Monotype Baskerville is virtually a duplicate of the English Monotype face […] cut in 1923 under the direction of Stanley Morison, being derived from the great primer (18-point) size of Baskerville’s type, and copied by Lanston in 1931. The Intertype roman face is substantially the same as Monotype except for adaptation to mechanical requirements. But while the Monotype italic is considerably narrower than the roman, on Intertype the two faces are necessarily the same width.” [McGrew 1993]
A digital version in three weights plus italics comes bundled with MacOS. Version 10 (2014) offers wide language support incl. Cyrillic, Greek, Vietnamese, Deseret, and more. Especially in the bolder weights, many non-English glyphs are faulty, though.
