About Harker

Harker is a condensed and high-contrast typeface with thin and flat serifs in the style of a Didot. Its design stands out through a balance between the calligraphic origins of the letters and their geometric rationalization. It features two capital heights, offering more options for composition.

Thomas Bizzarri and Alain Rodriguez found their primary inspiration in Olympic, released in 1937 by the Parisian type foundry Deberny & Peignot. Olympic was already conceived as a revival and refinement of one or more anonymous typefaces, whose stylistic features were widely found in Western foundries’ specimens during the second half of the 19th century. At the time, these typefaces, composed exclusively of capitals, were widely used in the emerging fields of press, advertising, fashion and publishing. This was the golden age of serialized literature and gothic novels, marked by publications such as Dracula by Bram Stoker, published by Archibald Constable & Co. in 1887, whose bold and timeless cover was entirely typographic. Thomas and Alain borrowed the name of their typeface from the narrator and heroine of the novel.

By the end of the Romantic era, these typefaces saw renewed popularity lasting until the 1950s, especially seen in avant-garde journals and Club du Livre, before almost disappearing with the emergence of the International Style. The typographic practices stemming from this movement made title layouts using two different capital heights obsolete, as illustrated by the cover of Dracula. This approach curiously reemerged in the early 1990s in elements of popular culture, including movie posters and rap album covers. Harker reinterprets and updates these historical shapes and methods of composition.

Details

Character set: Latin extended

File formats delivered: OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2

Designed by Thomas Bizzarri and Alain Rodriguez. Developed by Solenn Bordeau at OTT

Supported Languages

Afrikaans • Albanian • German • English • Asu • Low German • Lower Sorbian • Basque • Bemba • Bena • Bosnian • Cape Verdean • Catalan • Cebuano • Chewa • Chisena • Cornish • Corsican • Mauritian Creole • Croatian • Danish • Jola-Fonyi • Embu • Spanish • Esperanto • Estonian • Faroese • Filipino • Finnish • French • Friulian • West Frisian • Scottish Gaelic • Galician • Welsh • Ganda • Greenlandic • Gusii • Upper Sorbian • Hungarian • Ido • Indonesian • Interlingua • Interlingue • Irish • Isangu • Icelandic • Italian • Javanese • Jju • Kalenjin • Kamba • Kiga • Kikuyu • Kinyarwanda • Kölsch • Kurdish • Latvian • Ligurian • Lithuanian • Lojban • Lombard • Luo • Luxembourgish • Luyia • Makonde • Makua • Malay • Malagasy • Maltese • Manx • Maori • Matchame • Meru • Northern Ndebele • Southern Ndebele • Dutch • Norwegian Bokmål • Norwegian Nynorsk • Nyankole • Occitan • Oromo • Polish • Portuguese • Rejang • Romansh • Rombo • Romanian • Rundi • Rwa • Samburu • Inari Sami • Northern Sami • Sango • Sardinian • Shambala • Shona • Silesian • Slovak • Slovenian • Soga • Somali • Northern Sotho • Southern Sotho • Sundanese • Swedish • Swiss German • Swahili • Swati • Taita • Taroko • Czech • Teso • Tsonga • Tswana • Turkmen • Vmw • Vunjo • Walloon • Walser • Wolastoqey • Wolof • Xhosa • Zhuang • Zulu