Baskerville font
Baskerville is a transitional serif by John Baskerville, from 1757. It comes with macOS, and Microsoft 365 includes it too as a cloud font; elsewhere its digital versions are sold by type foundries, and free revivals of it are below. FontKind hasn’t measured it, so the free fonts below stand beside it by their own description and by class, not by measurement.
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Libre Baskerville
Based on ATF’s Baskerville of 1941 · Google Fonts: Libre Baskerville
Find the font. Find its kind.Free for commercial useOFL
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Bacasime Antique
Made to stand in for Baskerville Old Face in documents · Google Fonts: Bacasime Antique
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Free for commercial useOFL
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Not measured against Baskerville: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Baskerville or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Baskerville
- Designed by
- John BaskervilleSource: Wikipedia: Baskerville
- First issued
- 1757Source: Wikipedia: Baskerville
- Class
- Transitional serifSource: Wikipedia: Baskerville
- Comes with
- Microsoft 365, as a cloud font: Baskerville Old FacemacOS Tahoe: BaskervilleSource: Microsoft: cloud fonts in Office , Apple: fonts included with macOS Tahoe
- Sold by
- Monotype, as Monotype Baskerville
- Trademark
- Baskerville is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.Source: Monotype: trademarks
Read by hand on 1 October 2026 from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), Microsoft’s and Apple’s lists of their fonts, Monotype’s list of its trademarks and the foundries’ and shops’ own pages. The references are linked beside each fact; a page that sells or hands out the font is not, so a fact read only there shows no link.
Baskerville™ is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation. FontKind is not affiliated with The Monotype Corporation, and this page is an independent reference.
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Questions about Baskerville
Is Baskerville free?
The design is old enough to be revived freely, and free revivals of Baskerville are on this page. Its commercial digital versions are paid (It comes with macOS, so a Mac already has it; Microsoft 365 includes it as a cloud font, for Word, PowerPoint and Excel), sold by type foundries. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Baskerville?
Baskerville was designed by John Baskerville, and first issued in 1757.
Can I use Baskerville in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, yes, with Microsoft 365: Baskerville is one of its cloud fonts, which Word downloads when you pick it. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Baskerville isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Libre Baskerville, Bacasime Antique and Newsreader are there, under More fonts. Canva publishes no list of its fonts: search its font menu, or, with Canva Pro, upload a font whose licence allows it.
What is the closest free alternative to Baskerville?
FontKind hasn’t measured Baskerville: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. The free fonts whose own descriptions name it, or its model, are Libre Baskerville and Bacasime Antique. Beside them, Newsreader, Noto Serif and Spectral are transitional serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Baskerville.