In part two we considered the Old Style or Garalde types and also discovered how this era gave birth to the first italic type in 1501. In part one we traveled all the way back to the 15th century to take a closer look at the Humanist or Venetian style types with their distinctive lowercase ‘e’ (remember that sloping crossbar?). Welcome to part three of our Type Terms series. See LISENCE.txt for licensing information.For a modern-day transitional typeface, be sure to check out the Brill typeface family. The fonts and related code are licenses under Open Font License. Feel free to pull requests and suggest improvement ! This font is collaborative and there is still much to do: you are welcome to download it, use it, and make comments. run gftools builder Baskervville.glyphs Baskervville-Italic.glyphs.Go to the sources dir of your lcoal clone: cd path/to/repo/sources.This elementary duplication of the letter v signals, in a way, the counterfeiting.Ĭomparison betwen Jacob's Baskerwille and ANRT's Baskervville (ANRT Nancy 2018). Jacob's Baskerwille is a strange double of Baskerville's typefaces a "clone" which looks alike but which is not as achieved as its predecessor. We kept that unusual w, which is twice a v, and made it the identity of Jacob's font. We also had to guess the design of missing letters. However, we wanted to be able to use the font and for that matter we corrected some letter-shapes and proportions. So we tried to be true to what we thought were Jacob's purposess while using contemporary tools. We didn't want to parody an historical typeface which would have reproduced irregularities from the paper, the ink nor the machine. The sources showed obvious inaccuracies due to the difficulty of producing and printing types in the 19th century. Levrault, Imprimerie Berger Levrault, Strasbourg, 1815. The workshop aimed to digitalized Jacob's font in order to testify to his work which creates a transition between transitional and modern styles. The particularity of Jacob's Baskerwille is that the roman is very closed to Baskerville's typefaces while the italic is closer to Didot's typefaces. The font Jacob produced was sold as a "Caractères dans le genre Baskerwille" i.e "Baskerwille fonts alike" - with a w instead of a v. It was distributed by Berger-Levrault Foundry from 1815. The revival of a revival : from Baskerville to Baskerwille to Baskervvilleīaskervville is a revival of Jacob's Baskerwille, itself revived from Baskerville's typeface. Thanks to credit everything you use in this repository with the mention : ANRT (Atelier National de Recherche typographique), Nancy. We have a lot of other relevant resources but we are still organizing recent discoveries. Students/Researchers Promo 2017: Alexis Faudot, Rémi Forte, Morgane Pierson, Rafael Ribas, Tanguy Vanlæys & Rosalie Wagner.ĭevelopment and production: Rosalie Wagnerįor this revival we used the sources from La Notice historique de Berger-Levrault, 1815. Teachers: Charles Mazé, Jérémie Hornus, Jérôme Knebusch, Émilie Rigaud, Alice Savoie. Organization: ANRT (Atelier National de Recherche typographique), Nancy. This is the repository of the production process of Jacob's Baskerwille revival made at the ANRT in 2017/2018.
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