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ITC New Baskerville
ITC New Baskerville is a licensed font from ITC: Complete family of 8 fonts: $161.99 USD, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 3 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. ITC New Baskerville is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- John Quaranda, John Baskerville
- Styles
- 8
- Classification
- Serif
- Price
- Complete family of 8 fonts: $161.99 USD (Individual Styles from $34.99 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
John Quaranda's late-twentieth-century interpretation of Baskerville for ITC, a readable, sharp, high-contrast text face; eight styles.
Free alternatives to ITC New Baskerville
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. ITC New Baskerville is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Libre Baskerville webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Libre Baskerville.
derived
Its page says it is based on the American Type Founders' Baskerville of 1941, with a taller x-height and less contrast for screen reading.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Source Serif 4 webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Source Serif 4.
same classification
A transitional serif loosely based on Fournier, a contemporary of Baskerville; similar axis and contrast, more contemporary detail.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Gelasio webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Gelasio.
same classification
Inspired by a French transitional type following the Romain du Roi; shares Baskerville's rational, transitional character.
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