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Baskerville Italic

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Baskerville Com Italic
  Format: OpenType Com

Price: US$ 43.00
  
... is part of the Baskerville Font Family, comprising altogether 5 fonts in OpenType Com format.
Character set features:
euro latinext LTCom_logo isoadobe2 adobece
388 characters
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Linked font group:
Baskerville Com Regular
Baskerville Com Italic
Baskerville Com Bold
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Product is contained in:
The Linotype Originals OpenType Edition Version Two
Baskerville Com Complete Family Value Pack
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Baskerville Italic
  Format: Windows TrueType

Price: US$ 26.00
  
... is part of the Baskerville Font Family, comprising altogether 6 fonts in Windows TrueType format.
Character set features:
euro
232 characters
Character maps: Encoding map   
Linked font group:
Baskerville Regular
Baskerville Italic
Baskerville Bold
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Product is contained in:
Baskerville Complete Family Value Pack
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Baskerville Italic
  Format: Windows PostScript

Price: US$ 26.00
  
... is part of the Baskerville Font Family, comprising altogether 6 fonts in Windows PostScript format.
Character set features:
euro
234 characters
Character maps: Encoding map   
Linked font group:
Baskerville Regular
Baskerville Italic
Baskerville Bold
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Product is contained in:
Baskerville Complete Family Value Pack
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Baskerville Italic
  Format: Mac PostScript

Price: US$ 26.00
  
... is part of the Baskerville Font Family, comprising altogether 6 fonts in Mac PostScript format.
Character set features:
euro
234 characters
Character maps: Encoding map   
Linked font group:
Baskerville Regular
Baskerville Italic
Baskerville Bold
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Product is contained in:
Baskerville Complete Family Value Pack
Technical information  

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Documents referring to this product ...

English designer Isaac Moore created the font Baskerville Old Face in 1768. Baskerville Old Face is based on one developed by the renowned 18th-century typographer John Baskerville. Tell-tale differences, including the characteristic squarish curves in the capital C and G, identify it as the version first issued by the Fry type foundry, established by the Fry family after they succeeded in the chocolate business.
Baskerville™ was developed in the 18th century by John Baskerville (1706–1775) and its clear, sharp image set it apart from others of its time. John Baskerville was a major figure in the improvement of print technique and typography and his work influenced the work of such famous designers as Didot in France and Bodoni in Italy. The fonts of John Baskerville were composed of more contrasting elements than any print characters that had been designed before. They needed finer paper and printing [...]
Baskerville was developed in the 18th century by John Baskerville (1706–1775) and its clear, sharp image set it apart from others of its time. John Baskerville was a major figure in the improvement of print technique and typography and his work influenced the work of such famous designers as Didot in France and Bodoni in Italy. The fonts of John Baskerville were composed of more contrasting elements than any print characters that had been designed before. They needed finer paper and printing [...]

About Baskerville Italic ...

Linotype usage sample for Baskerville Com Italic
Designer: John Baskerville, 1750
Baskerville Italic belongs to the Baskerville Font Family which is part of the Linotype Originals.
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.
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