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They are not that expensive. I would gladly pay a similar amount for a decent Baskerville LaTeX font with math support. I would have to hide it to my wife somehow, though...

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This wasn't about whether they "are" expensive, but about that they are "the most" expensive. If you think this is perfectly affordable, then cool: you can clearly afford every professional font on the market, use that power wisely.

https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/baskervillef/ ?

When did the dog become sleazy?

This is a good start (and baskervald is even better) but is not of excellent quality. I am not talking about the character shapes themselves, that are OK, but about the relationship with greek characters, with LaTeX math, and the quality of accented characters. What the world needs is an available version of the "SMF Baskerville" described by Yannis Haralambous here: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02101627

I wonder if people would chip in to pay someone to do it right.

This is exactly what happened. When the french mathematical society ordered this font they probably paid a lot of money, and then it became a sort of "secret sauce" that they want to use exclusively.

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