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BACKGROUND: My goal for Harfang was to create a serif typeface that would be easy to read at text sizes, while having a strong personality at larger sizes. The initial design had a purely rounded style, but with each development pass I introduced some angularity. The final result is a typeface that is easy to read in long texts, advertising copy, annual reports and the like; but one that also provides a crisp and stylish appeal in more prominent display settings. I choose the name Harfang (Harfang des neiges — Snowy Owl or Great White Owl) because after my first typeface, Migration, I wanted something with a thematic relation. On a more personal level, Harfang is the official bird of Québec, a country with a long winter and a wonderful, white landscape, and the place I call home. —André Simard

KEYWORDS: angular, book, capitals, chiseled, classic, clean, contrast, delicate, engraved, fancy, formal, hand, handcut, historical, humanist, legible, letterpress, lineage, novel, readable, Renaissance, revival, smallcaps, text, title, titling

BY: ANDRÉ SIMARD

During his three-decade career in graphic design, André Simard has dedicated himself to finding the perfect typographic solutions for his clients. As a result of this intensive focus, he has grown to love and respect the beauty and communicative power of the alphabet in all its stylistic incarnations. In 2005, he began a migration from designing with type, to actually designing type. Harfang Pro is the second typeface he has created. André resides in Rouyn-Noranda, Québec, Canada.

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