The English engraver John Baskerville was born in 1706. He began his career at an early age of seventeen, when he was engraving tombstones. Three years late, he was teaching writing and bookkeeping while still running an engraving business.
At the age of forty-four, Baskerville created medium capsBaskerville. He applied his uncommon engraving skill to printing and typography. After four years' work, he produced the first of the elegant Baskerville fonts. He ignored the invention of woven paper and developed a new and better ink where he brought fine printing to new heights.
Even though Baskerville was an atheist, in 1763, the Cambridge University Press hired him to produce a bible. It took him five years of hard work to produce what some consider to be the most beautiful bible made.
Benjamin Franklin, a fellow member of the Royal Society of Arts, greatly his fonts and took the designs back to the United States of America where they were adopted for most federal government publishing.
He died on January 8, 1775 and was buried in his own garden sense he was an atheist.
What makes Baskerville unique is the use of thick and thin line strokes the create contrast within the font. When Baskerville was created, it was more legiable and readable in books. Not many people used Baskerville when it was created but it is more popular now.
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