JY&A Fonts are rupee sign-equipped

JY Alia sample GIF
Nine of JY&A Fonts’ families now have the rupee symbol. We’re not quite the first—an open source family beat us to it—but we’re among the first. The Unicode folks only announced the keyboard shortcut for Indian users last month, so I look forward to seeing my rupee symbols in action soon!

The new sterling When JY Pinnacle is re-released in OpenType later this year, this is the new pound sterling sign. I admit the 1995 one I did was crap. I was in such a hurry to get it done for 1996, and the reissue gives me a chance, 15 years on, to fix certain things.
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The new sterling When JY Pinnacle is re-released in OpenType later this year, this is the new pound sterling sign. I admit the 1995 one I did was crap. I was in such a hurry to get it done for 1996, and the reissue gives me a chance, 15 years on, to fix certain things.

Time for my close-up, Mr de Mille I know the newer Nokia 2730 gives a worse photographic result than the old 6275i in most shots, but I decided to snap my laptop screen to see how it fared on close-ups. I haven’t subjected the 6275i to the same. Still, it’s interesting to see ClearType at work, and my JY Alia typeface as well.
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Time for my close-up, Mr de Mille I know the newer Nokia 2730 gives a worse photographic result than the old 6275i in most shots, but I decided to snap my laptop screen to see how it fared on close-ups. I haven’t subjected the 6275i to the same. Still, it’s interesting to see ClearType at work, and my JY Alia typeface as well.

atestu: Creative Review - The Helvetica killer Aktiv is a font aimed at getting rid of the omnipresent Helvetica. While I like Helvetica, I must admit that I’m getting a bit sick of it, like when eating too much chocolate gives you diarrhoea. It is used way too much, and for absurd uses (such as long text, like in the article for instance…). Aktiv is a beautiful font that, when compared to Helvetica, really brings out its flaws. I never realised how ugly some Helvetica letters are (look at the bold “t”!). Breaking the monotony I like Helvetica, but for similar reasons, we created Lucire as our in-house sans serif. This Aktiv looks nice, though it reminds me a bit of Dalton Maag’s BMW Type and Haas Unica (which is not a bad thing).
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Creative Review - The Helvetica killer

Aktiv is a font aimed at getting rid of the omnipresent Helvetica.

While I like Helvetica, I must admit that I’m getting a bit sick of it, like when eating too much chocolate gives you diarrhoea. It is used way too much, and for absurd uses (such as long text, like in the article for instance…).

Aktiv is a beautiful font that, when compared to Helvetica, really brings out its flaws. I never realised how ugly some Helvetica letters are (look at the bold “t”!).

Breaking the monotony I like Helvetica, but for similar reasons, we created Lucire as our in-house sans serif. This Aktiv looks nice, though it reminds me a bit of Dalton Maag’s BMW Type and Haas Unica (which is not a bad thing).