Baskervville
Baskervville is a serif font in 4 weights with italics, also available as a variable font. Its lowercase letters are 4% narrower than the typical serif font. Last updated 11 September 2025.
Editing a PDF that uses Baskervville
Most PDFs embed only the letters they already use. Type a new letter and many editors either refuse or swap in a different font. MythosPDF recognises Baskervville from the widths stored in your PDF, loads the complete open font, and sets your new text in Baskervville itself. The rest of the page is carried over untouched.
Measured metrics
| Average lowercase letter width | 499 units per 1000 em |
|---|---|
| Average capital letter width | 715.6 units per 1000 em |
| Word space | 264 units per 1000 em |
| Digits | proportional (digit widths differ) |
| Spacing | proportional |
| Width of i compared with m | 33% |
| Printable ASCII characters covered | 94 of 94 |
| Category | Serif |
Weights and styles
Languages beyond basic Latin
Open fonts closest to Baskervville
Measured on every printable character both fonts contain. A smaller difference means the same words take the same space, so lines break in the same places.
- Baskervville SC Regularidentical letter widths (0 units)
- Joan Regularloosely similar widths (34 units)
- Enriqueta Regularloosely similar widths (35.6 units)
- Poltawski Nowy Regularloosely similar widths (35.9 units)
- Averia Serif Libre Regularloosely similar widths (36.1 units)
- Tiro Devanagari Marathi Regularloosely similar widths (36.2 units)
- Tiro Devanagari Sanskrit Regularloosely similar widths (36.2 units)
- Tiro Gurmukhi Regularloosely similar widths (36.2 units)
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Questions people ask
+Can I edit a PDF that uses Baskervville?
Yes. Drop the PDF into MythosPDF and click the text. New letters are set in Baskervville itself, loaded from the open font, so the edit matches the rest of the page.
+Is Baskervville free to use?
Baskervville is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, an open licence that allows free use in documents, including commercial ones. Check the licence text for your exact use.
+Which font is closest to Baskervville?
By measured letter widths, Baskervville SC is the closest match among open fonts (a mean difference of 0 units per 1000 em). Text set in one takes almost the same space in the other.
+Which languages does Baskervville support?
It includes these character sets: Latin, Central European.
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