Mrs Eaves font
Mrs Eaves is a transitional serif by Zuzana Licko, first issued by Emigre in 1996. It isn’t free: it is a paid typeface, sold by Emigre. 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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About Mrs Eaves
- Designed by
- Zuzana LickoSource: Wikipedia: Mrs Eaves
- First issued
- Emigre, 1996Source: Wikipedia: Mrs Eaves
- Class
- Transitional serifSource: Wikipedia: Mrs Eaves
- Comes with
- Not with Windows 11, macOS Tahoe or Microsoft 365, by their own listsSource: Microsoft: Windows 11 font list , Apple: fonts included with macOS Tahoe , Microsoft: cloud fonts in Office
- Sold by
- Emigre
- Also
- It is based on Baskerville, and named after John Baskerville’s assistant, who later became his wife.Source: Wikipedia: Mrs Eaves
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.
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Questions about Mrs Eaves
Is Mrs Eaves free?
No. Mrs Eaves is a paid typeface, sold by Emigre. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Mrs Eaves?
Mrs Eaves was designed by Zuzana Licko, and first issued by Emigre in 1996.
Can I use Mrs Eaves in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, only after you install a licensed copy: neither Windows nor Microsoft 365 comes with Mrs Eaves. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Mrs Eaves isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Newsreader, Libre Baskerville and Noto Serif 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 Mrs Eaves?
FontKind hasn’t measured Mrs Eaves: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. Newsreader, Libre Baskerville and Noto Serif are transitional serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Mrs Eaves.