John baskerville

My name is Gregory. My friends say I'm bossy. Who am I to argue with them? Look what I made. Thank you John Baskerville for your lovely font. For this portrait, I chose the Baskerville font. I am altogether attracted to san-serif fonts and their contemporary line and their feel, but I decided now is the…

Printing straddles both art and science. One of its greatest exponents was Birmingham’s John Baskerville (1707–75), an eighteenth-century printer and industrialist with a worldwide reputation. Baskerville was the ‘complete printer’ – he applied his scientific knowledge of materials and metal to enable the optimum execution of the artistic aspects of printing. His typographic experiments, which […]

A poster created to give information and a brief history of the Baskerville typeface.

Typography Poster Design

Gram I chose to work with the Gram typeface for this project for a few reasons. Generally I tend to use light typefaces in my work because I think that it is a very clean and lean looking style. Using light typefaces generally leave me feeling clean and light after reading them and are easy on the eyes. The reason I chose Gram specifically is because it appears to have a little bit of character in it, which I am drawn to in a typeface. While a light and clean typeface can lean towards a…

This is my final poster dedicated to john Baskerville, i chose not to use large blocks of text or have a formal layout that showed the words ‘John Baskerville’ so instead i created a le…

Download and install Tiffany and Co Font from here that is a serif typeface that is free for personal use.

John Baskerville. Type Designer of Baskerville. b. 1706

John Baskerville. Type design information compiled and maintained by Luc Devroye.