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Font problems?
I am working with Adobe Indesign cs2 - PC and I own Baskerville Old Face -regular. I want the font to appear bold and I have been told the best way to achieve this is to purchase "Baskerville Old Face Bold". I cannot use a different font (this is a corporate brand-must use this font) and I am planning only to purchase the bold variation not the entire font family. I am not sure which bold font style will match my current baskeville font. When I went to www.fonts.com to purchase this font style, I found different variations of the font and I am not sure which one to get. The variations found are the following: Monotype Baskerville New Baskerville ITC New Baskerville (it does not appear itlaic so I dont think ITC stand for italic) Baskerville Book Baskerville Small caps ITC New Baskerville CE Bold ITC New Baskerville Cyrillic Expert Bold OSF What the differences and how do I know which one to get?
Public Comments
- ITC is an acronym for the International Typeface Corporation. They make approximately 1800 fonts and the "ITC" lets you know which ones they designed and distributed. The ITC New Baskerville fonts you have there are all from the same family... you have a regular version, a Cyrillic Expert Bold version, and a Cyrillic Expert Bold Old Style Figures Bold version. What makes me upset when companies use a particular font for their image, the designers who created it often fail to look at how broad of range the font can actually be used for (italic, bold, black). The Baskerville OF bold font you need to find doesn't exist. But you have plenty of Baskerville fonts, all not in the same family which is why they are called something different, but all that look the same and are part of different families. Baskerville Old Face was a font used for centuries, on old type setters, but there was no bold, italic, or anything, mainly used for old text in books. New Baskerville was designed to be an updated version that had a broad range of uses, one that has bold, italic, black, bold italic, etc. They are the same font, but one is slightly more modern. Purchase the New Baskerville Bold and you'll be golden. Compare the upper case "Q" for the Old Face Baskerville you already have on your PC and the new Baskerville bold you purchase and you'll see one of the subtle changes, others changes exist but this is the most obvious. It's the tail of the "Q". Most changes only happen to the weird and less used letters & figures (Q, Z, X, ?, @, &, etc). New Baskerville Bold will do the trick for you. http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/itc-new-baskerville/bold/
