Libre Baskerville is a web font optimized for body text (typically 16px.) It is based on the American Type Founder's Baskerville from 1941, but it has a taller x-height, wider counters and a little less contrast, that allow it to work well for reading on-screen.
In use Samples at https://impallari.com/revivals/baskerville/
- Adding the Bold-Italic style so we can release a VariableFont soon
- Expanded the Latin charset andd added AfricanPri charset (from 470 to 857 glyphs)
- Imported and modernized legacy 9 years old UFO sources.
- Both Regular and Bold masters are now compatible, the old ones were independent from each other.
- Modernized and Fixed lots of old non-standard anchors and components
- Reviewed and fixed diacritics alignments.
- Reviewed & improved /caron and /dot related diacritics
- Redraw lowercase /germandbls and added uppercase /Germandbls
- Reviewed & improved /bar and /slash and /stroke related diacritics
- Libre Baskerville is licensed under the SIL Open Font License v1.1 (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
- To view the copyright and specific terms and conditions please refer to OFL.txt