Commercial · Serif · Emigre
Mrs Eaves
Mrs Eaves is a licensed font from Emigre: $299.00, 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. Mrs Eaves is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Zuzana Licko
- Released
- 1996
- Classification
- Serif
- Price
- $299.00 (Mrs Eaves Package; individual fonts from $39.00 (Mrs Eaves Roman $125.00)) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Zuzana Licko’s 1996 revival styled after Baskerville, named for John Baskerville’s housekeeper and later wife Sarah Eaves; roman, italic, bold and small-cap fonts.
Free alternatives to Mrs Eaves
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Mrs Eaves 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
An open Baskerville revival, the same source Emigre’s page names for Mrs Eaves; Libre Baskerville is optimised for text and lacks Mrs Eaves’s small x-height and generous spacing.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The EB Garamond webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not EB Garamond.
same classification
An old-style text serif with small caps and ligatures; a Garamond rather than a Baskerville.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Cormorant Garamond webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Cormorant Garamond.
same classification
Delicate high-contrast serif that shares Mrs Eaves’s display-friendly feel.
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