Friday, September 4, 2009

Baskerville Than & Now

Baskerville font was used to print a folio bible for the Cambridge University Press 1763
(the image below)
.
File-Basker's_bible.jpg

The popularity of using Baskerville font started declining after the creation of modern
typefaces, such as Bodoni. However in 1917, with the help of Bruce Rogers (left) it
has a revival in popularity(right).

brogers_d18230i38.jpg 0028617258.jpg



Today the Canadian Government's Corporate Identity Program used

Baskerville typeface, as well as the University ofBirmingham


File-Canada_wordmark.svg.png File-Bhamuniversitylogo.png


Other things that it has being used in today:


baskerville-20081009-144825.jpg File-Sixfeetunder.jpg font-new-baskerville-clinton.jpg351347.gif


Blog by RG


Sources.

http://www.wikipedia.org/

http://www.linotype.com/ fr/766/bruerogers.html

http://typophile.com/node/12622

http://lewisshepherd.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/do-voters-love-the-candidates-or-their-fonts/

http://www.custardfactory.co.uk/


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