Photo by Xavier Collin/Snapstar Live Friday morning’s interview with Sonia Sly on Kiwi Summer was the most fun I have ever had on radio. Radio New Zealand National was the most fair and balanced medium I dealt with when running for Mayor of Wellington in 2010, and I was glad that Sonia thought of […]
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After being interviewed about the outcome of the ‘Wellywood’ sign vote yesterday (a summary of what I told Newstalk ZB can be found on my Facebook fan page) I was reminded about how a few Wellingtonians, who supported my quest to stop the sign in 2010 and 2011, were not that thrilled that I used […]
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JY Pinnacle Italic will be re-released as a Pro version shortly, and above are some of the extra characters we’ve added. I know the swash k still needs work, and it will be fixed up by the time of release. Pinnacle always had a decent bunch of ligatures, but if you have the […]
Here’s a glyph inside JY Integrity that never got used beyond the original publicity in the mid-1990s. Before there was OpenType, there was QuickDraw GX, and I was part of the consortium trying to sort out the character set, along with Allan Haley and others. We were using this newfangled collaboration tool called the […]
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