Typeface Review: "Harrington"

What It Looks Like:

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Its History: It is incredibly hard to find anything concrete about this beautiful typeface. I found this on another blog: "It was created in 1991 by Sam Wang, an unknown typesetter." (Source #1)

And although this next paragraph claims it was created by The Font Bureau, Inc. there is no acknowledgment of this typeface anywhere on that company's website. "Harrington is a decorative serif with ornamental flourishes. Harrington has playful flourishes in the letterforms that give it an elegant, distinctive appearance. Harrington contains 248 glyphs and was created by The Font Bureau, Inc." (Source #2)

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What Type of Font It Is: Decorated - "As a general but not universal rule, a Decorated face is based upon a recognizable face within which decorative characteristics have been added, whereas in an Ornamental face, the form of the letter itself is determined by some decorative or figurative intention." (Source #3)

How You Can Design With It: "Decorative and Ornamental letters are, by definition, display faces and seldom, if ever, suited to the setting of any more than a small number of words. An informed choice of text face to accompany these will take into account the conventions of text setting in the period from which the display face originates, in order to ensure compatibility." (Source #3)

Where You Can Get It: "A TrueType version of this font is provided free with the Microsoft Office Value Pack (Macintosh)." (Source #4) 

Available for purchase at these sites:

-http://www.fonts.com/font/font-bureau/harrington/regular, 

-http://www.linotype.com/896578/HarringtonStdRegular-product.html, and

-http://www.ascenderfonts.com/font/harrington.aspx.

Descriptive Terms For It: decorated, display, elegant, feminine, headings, legibility, logo, and sub-headings.

Sources:
-#1 - http://helz-design.com/2012/03/font-of-the-week-12-harrington/,
-#2 - http://www.ascenderfonts.com/font/harrington.aspx,
-#3 - "The Complete Typographer: A Manual for Designing with Type" by Will Hill, 2nd Edition, p. 160, and
-#4 - http://www.identifont.com/show?1ND.

Examples:

Technically, this is a different typeface, "Baroque",
but it is reminiscent of "Harrington".
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Design copyright 2010 by Kara Muller.
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Design copyright 2011 by Kara Muller.
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