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Harry Pears
Font Designer
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Date: 30 July 2010
Designed Fonts: 6
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Harry C Pears is a director of the Font Factory and is a well known expert on typography. He was born in Quirindi, Australia and while still a youngster in short pants the family moved from the wheat fields of North Western NSW to the city of Sydney. Harry started his career as a camera operator in the printing industry making colour separations by very convoluted photomechanical methods. This was the era when highlight masks were made so further masks could be created and then combined with the transparency so the four colour separations could be produced. He studied Art, Photomechanical Reproduction, Chemistry, Biology and Calligraphy and also trained as a surveyor during National Service.
During the late 1960s he joined an Australian Graphic Arts supply company as an equipment demonstrator just at the time that second generation phototypesetters were being introduced into Australia. Harry had always been interested in lettering and the new machines with their great potential but many problems gave him the opportunity to study the mechanics of letter forms. The second generation machines were quickly replaced by CRT typesetters only to be superseded in 1984 by RIP technology.
By this time Harry was obsessed with type and dedicated himself to typography. Shortly after RIP burst on the scene he started a type consultancy that also marketed the first PostScript fonts. During the successful growth of the business Harry kept jotting down ideas for new typefaces until late in 1998 he moved up the North Coast with his portfolio of drawings to spend more time developing some of his typeface ideas. Lindisfarne Nova Regular and Bold were his first complete fonts. This was followed by Lindisfarne Incised and Lindisfarne Runes. An Art Deco typeface called Abyss Dark was released in 2002.
Harry is the principal owner of Typeface Research Pty Ltd of Lake Cathie, Australia. His expertise is fonts and when he is not designing, consulting and lecturing about fonts he grows giant silver beet and tasty tomatoes. |
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