The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Baskervville
A free alternative to Mrs Eaves.
About Baskervville
Baskervville is a scholarly revival of Baskerville's own 1750s type, drawn in 2019 at France's Atelier National de Recherche Typographique and distributed through Google Fonts. It returns to the classical proportions that later screen-oriented Baskervilles set aside, keeping the fine, sharply cut serifs and measured contrast of the transitional model. The finish is crisp rather than inky — the drawing follows the letterform itself, not the impression a hand press leaves in damp paper.
Among free serifs it lands closest to Mrs Eaves, sharing that refined book-page feel and the classical proportions Libre Baskerville abandons in favor of screen robustness. The difference is texture: Mrs Eaves carries a softness and an ink-on-paper weight that Baskervville trades for clarity and sharper detail. Choose it for book pages, long-form editorial, and identity work that wants eighteenth-century authority at higher resolution.
- Designer
- ANRT
- Released
- 2019
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
- Featured on
- 1 paid font page
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