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Harrison Serif
A modern slab ranging between capable and casual.
✍ introducing growing ideas
Für lange Zeit, vom 15. bis Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts, war die Antiqua das zentrale Schriftmodell für gedruckte Schrift. Erst »durch die Industrielle Revolution vergrößerte sich der typografische Markt beträchtlich. Die Unternehmer forderten von den Druckern größere, fettere und auffallendere Schriften für ihre Werbung.« Die erste Schrift dieser Art wurde 1817 vom englischen Schriftenschneider Vincent Figgins (1766–1844) entworfen. Der Entwerfer selbst taufte sein Versalalphabet noch Antique, der von ihm begonnene neue Schriftstil wird heute jedoch als Egyptienne bezeichnetet und charakterisiert sich durch eine starke Betonung der Serifen und einem sehr geringen Strichstärkenkontrast. Neben der kräftigen Reklameschrift entwickelte sich kurz darauf ein Modell, das die Form der Egyptienne zurück zur Nutzung in Fließtextgrößen überführte. Die von Robert Besley (1794–1876) mit Benjamin Fox (?–1877) entwickelte Clarendon (1845) stellt die Grundlage für das Ionic Model, das sich sowohl im Lesetext von Zeitungen als auch in großen Headlines bewährt hat.

Harrison Serif is a sturdy yet contrasted slab serif that combines a rational and efficient approach with a warm voice. A typeface of nuances, the slightly carved and occasionally extended serifs evoke the friendly side of Harrison Serif and contrast with the straight forward nature of the typeface’s squarish curves, open counters and horizontal emphasis.

Harrison was drawn for long form reading on screens and user interfaces, but the typeface’s more refined details come alive in high-resolution media and print. The almost mechanical vertical terminals, open counters and modest capitals combine with Harrison’s generous x-height to ensure the typeface holds up on screen. With a sturdy physique, no medium is a worry for this serif typeface.

Harrison Serif’s broad range of weights means that it’s more than a just a simple text face. From sheer Hairline to deep, dark Ultra, its weight spectrum is divided into nine distinct styles — leaving no need unfulfilled for editorial designers.
Further, Harrison explores nuance in its Italics. Something between true Italics and Obliques, they range from cursive to the playful, from the expressive to letters with the sobriety of unpretentious slanted Obliques.

Of course Harrison provides all the OpenType features needed for ambitious typography: as well as a variety of figure styles, there small caps and the capitals-to-small caps feature. And you can have no doubt that it contains broad Latin language support and a set of helpful symbols.

Designed by
Jakob Runge
in 2017
Contributions
Lisa Fischbach
TDC Awarded
Selected for a Certificate of Typographic Excellence by the Type Directors Club in 2018
Specs
Providing 18 styles, 9 weights, more than 800 glyphs per font
Formats
otf and ttf for desktop and apps, and woff and woff2 for web
Tags
SerifSlabRegularHeadlinesBody TextInterfaceIdentityPublishingAccessibilityLatinCleanIndustrialElegantVariable FontItalicsSmall CapsAlternates
Related Typefaces
Gratimo Classic

Styles

  • Hair
  • Hair Italic
  • Thin
  • Thin Italic
  • ExtraLight
  • ExtraLight Italic
  • Light
  • Light Italic
  • Regular
  • Regular Italic
  • Medium
  • Medium Italic
  • Bold
  • Bold Italic
  • Black
  • Black Italic
  • Ultra
  • Ultra Italic
Character Set
Language Support
Supports more than 200 Languages: Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic, Asturian, Atayal, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofán, Cornish, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz , Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Gikuyu, Gooniyandi, Greenlandic, Guadeloupean Creole, Gwich’in, Haitian Creole, Hän, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcąk, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese, Jèrriais, Kaingang, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan, Kaqchikel, Karakalpak, Karelian, Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Kurdish, Ladin, Latin, Latino sine Flexione, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Māori, Marquesan, Megleno-Romanian, Meriam Mir, Mirandese, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinh-Patha, Nagamese Creole, Nahuatl, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Oshiwambo, Ossetian, Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Q’eqchi’, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami Inari , Sami Lule, Sami Northern, Sami Southern, Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Seri, Seychellois Creole, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio, Somali, Sorbian (Lower, Upper), Sotho (Northern, Southern), Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese, Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Uzbek, Venetian, Vepsian, Volapük, Võro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xavante, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zarma, Zazaki, Zulu, Zuni
OpenType Features
All OpenType Features included: Access All Alternates, Caps to Small Caps, Case Sensitive, Contextual Alternates, Denominator, Fractions, Glyph Composition/Decomposition, Kerning, Ligatures, Lining Figures, Localized Forms, Mark to Mark Positioning, Numerators, Old style Figures, Ordinals, Proportional Figures, Scientific Inferiors, Slashed Zero, Small Capitals, Stylistic Alternates, Stylistic Set: Tabular Width Set, Stylistic Set: Upright: Serifed c and s—Italic: Sturdy g v w y, Subscript, Superscript, Tabular Figures

In-Use & Articles

Sturdy Serifs in Sophisticated Application
Harrison Serif in Use
Crafting Timeless Workpieces
Harrison Serif in Use
A Closer Look at Harrison Serif
Making Of Harrison Serif