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Also called Réale

The serif class standing between pen and compass: the stress comes upright, contrast rises, and the serifs flatten.

Transitional: a page of Baskerville's Virgil of 1757, the stress upright and the contrast higher than an old-style face.
Baskerville's Virgil, 1757, John Baskerville, printer.
Public domainPublic domain: Printed in Birmingham in 1757; Baskerville died in 1775, and the book is out of copyright everywhere; Commons tags the scan public domain, and this house reads a faithful scan of a flat public-domain page as carrying no new copyright.
Page 24 of the scan, cropped to the text. Retrieved 2026-09-10.
Transitional: Fournier's roman alphabet in his Manuel typographique, Paris, 1766, upright, with a near-vertical stress and sharpened serifs.
Fournier's roman, Manuel typographique, 1766, Pierre-Simon Fournier, punchcutter and printer.
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Retrieved 2026-09-10.

Near it

GaraldeDidoneStressBall terminalClarendonHumanist

Vox-ATypI

What it is made of

stressvertical or near it
contrasthigher than garalde, lower than didone
serifsfine, bracketed
the classification this term belongs to is retiredde-adopted 18 March 2021AND THE CLASSIFICATION THIS TERM BELONGS TO WAS RETIRED BY ITS OWN CUSTODIAN. The ATypI board de-adopted Vox-ATypI on 18 March 2021 and withdrew its endorsement, because the system divides only the Latin writing system and a later revision put Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew and the Asian scripts together under one heading called Non-Latines. ATypI, "ATypI de-adopts Vox-ATypI typeface classification system", published 27 April 2021, read whole (1,136 words). THE STATEMENT DOES NOT DEFINE THIS CLASS: it names only Garaldes and Linéales as examples, so nothing in this entry's own definition comes from it

Where it came from

Eighteenth century. The Romain du Roi cut for the French crown from 1692 is the usual starting point, and Baskerville the usual example.

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