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Video: The Baskerville typeface
Discover how John Baskerville developed the revolutionary Baskerville typeface in Birmingham in the mid 18th Century.
Baskerville was a designer, craftsman, thinker and businessman. His innovations were a marriage of art and technology with detailed attention to printing, inks, paper and printing.
The typeface is still used and loved today.
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