In 2009, the Baskerville Project was conceived, an animated movie with David Osbaldestin as its Creative Director, and Caroline Archer and Ben Waddington as researchers. Local download.īiography by Nicholas Fabian. With a stated intent to improve on Caslon, Baskervilles types featured rounded characters, a. Publications include Essai d'épreuves des caractàres de la fonderie de Baskerville (Paris, ca. John Baskerville was an admirer of Caslons typefaces. Linotype offers 38 Baskerville typefaces. In modern times, we find the 1978 rendering of ITC New Baskerville by Matthew Carter and John Quaranda.
The modern types became more popular than Baskerville, and people had to wait until 1917 when Bruce Rogers revived Baskerville's type for the Harvard University Press, followed by Stanley Morison's revival in 1924 for the British Monotype Company. Early printers would reuse metal type over and. The design of the typeface is meant to evoke the Colonial era. It was originally called 'Fifteenth Century', but was renamed 'Caslon Antique' by Nadall's foundry, Barnhart Bros.
It was there in 1763 he published his master work, a folio Bible, which was printed using his own typeface, ink, and paper. Caslon Antique is a decorative American typeface that was designed in 1894 by Berne Nadall. In 1758, he was appointed printer to the Cambridge University Press. In 1757, Baskerville published his first work, a collection of Virgil, which was followed by some fifty other classics. The curved strokes are more circular in shape, and the characters became more regular. He increased the thick-thin contrast over that found in Caslon's types, making the serifs sharper and more tapered, and shifted the axis of rounded letters to a more vertical position. Baskerville designed his primary roman typeface to be a refinement of the reigning champion of British typography, Caslon. In 1757, he created his famous serif typefaces, which were called transitional as they were somewhat between the old style typefaces of William Caslon and the modern types of Bodoni and Didot. TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated onīirmingham-based British writing master, stonecutter, letter designer, typefounder and printer (1706-1775).
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