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Typeface Research Pty Ltd [Harry C. Pears]

Australian Harry Pears (b. The Quirindi, Australia) is a veteran of the type world. He started his career as a colour camera operator and then as a phototypesetter. He started marketing digital typefaces in Australia, and has designed a few fonts himself. Creator in 2001 of the Celtic look family Lindisfarne Nova (with calligrapher Margaret Layson) at Bitstream (this includes Lindisfarne Nova Incised and Lindisfarne Runes).

Harry is the owner of Typeface Research Pty. Ltd. of Lake Cathie, Australia. Author of Decorate with Type An encyclopedia of decorative and novelty fonts (2011), in which he proposes a new categorization of decorative types.

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file name: Margaret Layson Harry Pears Lindisfarne Nova B T Bold 2002 2004


file name: Margaret Layson Harry Pears Lindisfarne Nova B T Incised 2002 2004


file name: Margaret Layson Harry Pears Lindisfarne Nova B T Roman 2002 2004


file name: Margaret Layson Harry Pears Lindisfarne Runes B T Roman 2002 2004







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